[ic] Re: Requirement to not encrypt credit card numbers

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 10:14:32AM +1000, interchange@lannet.com.au wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Aug 2002 racke@linuxia.de wrote:
> 
> > interchange@lannet.com.au writes:
> >
> > > In the ORDERS_TO email the credit card details are either mangled or
> > > encrypted.
> > >
> > > I have a situation where I can handle the emails on a secure internal
> > > network and want to pass them straight thru to a printer anyway.
> > >
> > > This is simple, but it requires that the CC details be in clear.
> > >
> > > How is this best handled?
> >
> > This has been discussed many times on the list. It boils down to
> > "don't do that". You already start to loose your customer's confidence
> > in your professionality :-(.
> 
> Re-read my second paragraph.  I am above average paranoid about network
> security to the extent that the internal network traffic is 3DES
> encrypted, so don't comment on my professionality.

Re-read his first paragraph: this has been discussed many
times on the list.  Do your homework.

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