Re: Sensitive Information (like CC)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Have the email be a "you've got an order" email that has a URL in it which the then can view the order via SSL. That way you don't have to put all the information in the email. PGP is another option, but I find it beyond the abilities of many winblows users. - -- Aaron Turner <aturner@pobox.com|synfin.net|linuxkb.org> URI:www.synfin.net They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin pub 1024D/F86EDAE6 Sig: 3167 CCD6 6081 0FFC B749 9A8F 8707 9817 F86E DAE6 All emails by me are PGP signed; a lack of a signature indicates a forgery. I have retired my PGP 2.6.2 key: FBE1 CEED 57E4 AB80 596E 60BF 451B 20E8 On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > > What's the best (secure?) way of transmitting sensitive information > over email? I'm helping some friends build an online order form. They > have a Thawte certificate and are already using it for the order form, > but they would like the information to be emailed to them when an order > is placed. The problem is, the information contains everything, the > person's name, address, credit card information. Obviously I can't just > email this over over the ether, so how do people deal with this type of > stuff? > > The server is a unix machine, and they are using winblows to read > email. > > -- > H | Hi, I'm currently out of my mind. Please leave a message. BEEEEP! > |____________________________________________________________________ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Ashley M. Kirchner <mailto:ashley@pcraft.com> . > 303.442.6410 x130 > Director of Internet Operations / SysAdmin . 800.441.3873 x130 > Photo Craft Laboratories, Inc. . eFax 248.671.0909 > http://www.pcraft.com . 3550 Arapahoe > Ave, #6 > .................. . . . . Boulder, CO 80303, U.S.A. > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key at: http://www.synfin.net/aturner/pgpkey.asc iEYEARECAAYFAjrk9FwACgkQhweYF/hu2uaojACfQB0rb/s6fE2TJdc0JVIfgOAD ZdkAn15Cly3vZ2cwUwOFZrmEt+T7ZP/G =fORj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----