[ic] credit card info

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Sep 21 13:21:01 2001


At 08:54 AM 09/20/2001 -0700, you wrote:

>Thats nice and all, but we batch our creditcards via a script. Once a day we
>download all the days activities which runs into the thousands and then run
>a script which looks for the creditcard info, then writes it to a txt file
>and then batch to the terminal from there. Its fully automated. So our
>little situation would make for teadious situation if we had to do it all
>with human intervention.

A call to command-line PGP or GPG could be added to your script, and passed 
the encrypted credit card info, in all likelihood. I did this for a client 
who also formats the their credit card transactions for automatic batch 
processing.

- Ed L.


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Ed LaFrance [mailto:edl@newmediaems.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2001 12:29 PM
>To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
>Subject: Re: [ic] credit card info
>
>
>At 03:03 PM 09/19/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm facing the same problem with version 4.8. I'm looking for a way to
> >process the orders offline via a physical credit card terminal. I have
> >not been able to do either one of two things, store the card number in
> >the order panel or have it emailed as part of the order notification.
> >
> >Please let me know if anybody has come up with a solution. I would
> >appreciate it.
> >
> >Regards,
>
>Very strange, this resistance to using encryption. You ask if anyone has
>come up with a solution to getting credit card numbers emailed to you.  The
>answer is yes; IC provides a very nice one:
>
>1. Set up your encryption program with your public key on the server,
>configure IC to use it for credit card info;
>
>2. Decrypt the credit card info which appears in your email box, with the
>emailed copy of the order.
>
>I have clients who process several hundred orders a day who are doing
>this.  It is not too hard to write a batch-decryption script for the
>receiving end.  I don't understand why some people seem willing to go to
>great lengths to get around this!
>
>- Ed L.
>
>
> > >
> > > I upgraded to IC 4.8x from IC 4.6.0.
> > > Under 4.6 my credit card info. was not encrypted and didn't need to be
> > > encrypted since the orders were not being sent over the internet.
> > >
> > > After upgrading to 4.8 all the credit card information now states
> > > NEED ENCRYPTION ENABLED.
> > > I'd rather have the creditcard number dsplayed so our salespeople can
> >login
> > > to the server via SSH and download  information
> > >
> > > Our catalog was based off the construct demo of 4.6.0
> > >
> > >
> > > J. Scott Andreas :)
> > > IS/Programmer/WebDevelopement
> > > Learning Services, Inc.
> > > e-mail: sandreas@learningservicesinc.com
> > > phone: 1-800-877-9378 ext. 146
> > > fax: (541) 744-2056
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