Re: encryption madness
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It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47138
interpreted = N
texte = No one has said it won't work, or, more accurately, that you won't observe it working. I just don't think it's guaranteed to work and future revisions could break it. Why take a chance? Use a header field - which is supposed to be used in this way. I can wave a small magnet over my credit card quite a bit without disrupting the data encoded on it. That doesn't mean it supports this treatment and won't break in the future if I keep doing it. SMSI isn't going to condone the practice because then they're stuck having to support it that way.John.>I don't understand. A couple of people have posted that it will not work, >that you can not encrypt a credit card number going into the accountnum >field of an orderfile, but I'm doing it and it's working... I can look at >that orderfile and see that the credit card number has been encrypted in the >correct field, so explain to me, if you would... in what way doesn't it >work? > >Isn't it the purpose of this list to figure things out because SM doesn't? > >Consider, yesterday, I posted numerous times about what I was doing to >secure my credit card information and had more than one reply telling me >that it seemed to be ok. Now, today... more replies telling me to do 10 >more things before I can rest easy. Nothing has come from SM, unless I >missed it, and I'm like everyone else on this list... very dependant upon >this list and the people who use it. > >I'm not insisting on doing things my way, simply trying to figure out >why there are some who say it doesn't work, yet I look at it and it appears >to be working, so I'm telling you... that whey I use the following code: > >[purchase cart=[cart]&accountnum=[url][encrypt >seed=abc][accountnum][/encrypt][/url] > >Then, go to the specific orderfile, I can see that the credit card number is >encrypted. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf >Of Kenneth Grome >Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:03 AM >To: WebCatalog Talk >Subject: Re: encryption madness > > >>Well, at this point in time, the orderfiles are not being processed by >>WebMerchant... so for me, in this instance, it seems to be working. > >WebMerchant has nothing to do with it, but go ahead and continue with >your way of doing it if you insist ... > > >Sincerely, >Kenneth Grome > >--------------------------------------------------- >WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center >175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 >Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net >Philippines http://www.webdna.net >--------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list
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No one has said it won't work, or, more accurately, that you won't observe it working. I just don't think it's guaranteed to work and future revisions could break it. Why take a chance? Use a header field - which is supposed to be used in this way. I can wave a small magnet over my credit card quite a bit without disrupting the data encoded on it. That doesn't mean it supports this treatment and won't break in the future if I keep doing it. SMSI isn't going to condone the practice because then they're stuck having to support it that way.John.>I don't understand. A couple of people have posted that it will not work, >that you can not encrypt a credit card number going into the accountnum >field of an orderfile, but I'm doing it and it's working... I can look at >that orderfile and see that the credit card number has been encrypted in the >correct field, so explain to me, if you would... in what way doesn't it >work? > >Isn't it the purpose of this list to figure things out because SM doesn't? > >Consider, yesterday, I posted numerous times about what I was doing to >secure my credit card information and had more than one reply telling me >that it seemed to be ok. Now, today... more replies telling me to do 10 >more things before I can rest easy. Nothing has come from SM, unless I >missed it, and I'm like everyone else on this list... very dependant upon >this list and the people who use it. > >I'm not insisting on doing things my way, simply trying to figure out >why there are some who say it doesn't work, yet I look at it and it appears >to be working, so I'm telling you... that whey I use the following code: > >[purchase cart=[cart]&accountnum=[url][encrypt >seed=abc][accountnum][/encrypt][/url] > >Then, go to the specific orderfile, I can see that the credit card number is >encrypted. > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: WebCatalog Talk [mailto:WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com]On Behalf >Of Kenneth Grome >Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:03 AM >To: WebCatalog Talk >Subject: Re: encryption madness > > >>Well, at this point in time, the orderfiles are not being processed by >>WebMerchant... so for me, in this instance, it seems to be working. > >WebMerchant has nothing to do with it, but go ahead and continue with >your way of doing it if you insist ... > > >Sincerely, >Kenneth Grome > >--------------------------------------------------- >WebDNA Professional Training and Development Center >175 J. Llorente Street +63 (32) 255-6921 >Cebu City, Cebu 6000 kengrome@webdna.net >Philippines http://www.webdna.net >--------------------------------------------------- > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to > >Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------- >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/-- --------------------------------- John A. Hill Oak Hill Software Website Development/Consulting john@oakhillsoftware.com------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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