[ic] Credit Card Question

Dan Browning interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Sep 11 01:49:01 2002


At 10:26 PM 9/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Back in 1999 or so I wrote a minivend 3.x connector
>for a small DOS/Windows based ordering/account package
>that is popular in the mail order catalog/retail
>world.  I'm converting this client to IC and am having
>an issue with the credit card.  Back in the minivend
>days I totally rewrote all the reports and emails.
>Emails and transactions got the last four digits, the
>reports "file" had the full cc number and was piped
>into the converter program where it was converted to a
>dataformat the ordering/accounting/inventory package
>likes and shipped off to secure computer basically not
>on the internet.  The number never sees the light of
>day again.
>
>So now of course all my converter/transport gets is
>"41 NEED ENCRYPTION 1111 12/02".
>
>I searched the mailing list and the
>&credit_card=standard keep option in the profile.order
>seemed like the ticket, but hasn't worked out.
>
>The error log indicates that IC is trying to run PGP
>(and failing).
>
>So what's my best option.  Changing the PGP program
>that gets run (to NULL or cat)?  If so where?
>variable.txt, a GUI option?

I would recommend encrypting it anyway, then decrypting it at whatever 
point you actually need it (e.g. just before "piped into the 
converter").  The [encrypt] usertag posted by Ed LaFrance (check the 
archives) might come in handy.

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