RE: [PHP] Secure Shopping PHP MySQL??

At 05:59 PM 9/7/2000 -0700, PHP List wrote:

Trying to secure your database using encryption probably would not involve your customers needing to use PGP. security is not easy. I strongly recommend getting a good book on computer security and trying to develop that 'evil' cracker mindset that you need to do this stuff. Basically what I am trying to accomplish is to have my customers customer place an order online. I want to get the CC information securely to my customer so they can process for payment. I was thinking of using the

make sure that you lockdown your dbserver and make sure that the scripts to access it are very secure....

database feature because I could store the CC# there until my customer was ready to take it and process the order. These are small time customers. I can't afford pgp for my server or do my

pgp is free....as is securessl and openSSL.. http://www.pgpi.com or http://web.mit.edu/pgp ~kurth

customers particularly want to pay the fee's associated with Internet Merchant accounts or cybercash type systems. I am just attempting to skirt the system and go with a little to no cost solution. Isn't that what open source is all about? :) TIA Scott -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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