Re: encrypting credit card numbers
"Itamar S.-T." <[email protected]>
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--- Mark McEahern <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to encrypt credit card numbers. When the > card number arrives at the > web server, I plan to encrypt it with a public key > and send it to a database > the web server only has write access to. Then, > later, a separate server > reads the encrypted card number, decrypts it with > the private key, and sends > it to the payment processor. Maybe use GPG with some wrapper library - I've done this, and it has the benefit of letting humans easily decrypt the data on Windows as well using PGP for Windows. This one looks nice: http://py-gnupg.sourceforge.net/ ===== Itamar Shtull-Trauring, itamar(at)shtull-trauring.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com