[ic] CC Encryption

[Michael Baird]

No reread it, you've not followed the thread very well.

Regards
MIKE

On Wednesday 12 June 2002 01:32 pm, Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Dan wrote:
> >Since you have obviously thought about the reasons behind not passing CC
> >info in the plain and have chosen to ignore them. I'm just going to toss
> >this in the ring. I have no idea how secure it would be...
> >
> >I suggest putting the order into PDF format prior to mailing it. Almost
> >everyone has Acrobat and you might even be able to password protect the
> >file.
> >
> >Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't this reduce the
> >chance of someone easily picking the CC number out of an email?
>
> Nope, your wrong as PDF stores the plain text as plain text with PDF
> formatting and if you were to use the reading password, that would
> require that password to be stored on the IC server in plain text which
> again, is not secure.
>
> The original poster, in his first post I believe, stated that his
> customers receive their e-mail on web based clients...  Wow!! What a
> huge mistake that would be to transmit CC's in the clear to that type of
> unprotected environment...  Besides, what e-commerce company has
> hundreds of people handling the CC processing, even if it is manual?
>  That makes little sense...
>
> Barry