Re: [mv] report flexibility?

["Ron Phipps" <takedown@cdsnet.net>]

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Hey Burnie,

I contemplated doing a similiar thing with our orders....  to keep the
results in a centralized placed that could be viewed by multiple employees
or by the hosting company (to track down errors).  The conclusion I came to
is that it is definitely do-able but that you will still need to use
encyrption on the credit card information.  The reason being is that if you
write the information in clear text to a file it can be viewed by someone
that breaks into the server or finds a way to view the secure area without
knowing the password.  You are putting the customers credit card numbers at
risk to being used illegally.  It would be possible for you to write the
encrypted CC to disk then when the user opens the html page they can copy
the text into PGP and view the CC info.  This would also require a private
and public key that was accessible to multiple users (anyone that would be
viewing the restricted area)

Good luck!
-Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: Burnie Vincent <wangcomputers@hotmail.com>
To: minivend-users@minivend.com <minivend-users@minivend.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: [mv] report flexibility?


>******    message to minivend-users from "Burnie Vincent"
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>Hello All,
>
>I'm looking into the possibility of sending the Order Report to a flat
>text file (tab or comma delimited) and appending the order to it, instead
>of having it sent out as email.  Then have this information displayed
>as a password secured HTML page in a directory near the rest
>of the MV pages... Wouldn't this also bypass the need for PGP encryption.
>
>P.S.  I'm sure this is common practice, although I didn't see this in the
>docs.
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>btw... This is on a RH6.1 Box w/mySQL
> perl 5.005_03, and MV4.04
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>
>Bernie Vincent
>Web Developer
>Wang Computers
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