RE: New Question: PGP and SSL security question

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******

No, any way you look at it, you still need to encrypt the information the
user types in and sends to you. Fortunately or unfortunately, SSL is the way
web browsers send encrypted information.

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Black Samba -
> Staff
> Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 1:54 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: RE: New Question: PGP and SSL security question
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Black Samba - Staff"
> <darrenl@blacksamba.com>     ******
>
> For using SSL, would just using Cybercash, or another 3rd party
> credit card
> processing company be a sufficient substitute for running our own SSL
> server? Would that protect the customer sufficiently?
>
>
> -D-
>
> Black Samba Design Services
> Darren Littlejohn
> darrenl@blacksamba.com
> 831-454-9580
>
> BLACK SAMBA IS NOW!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> > [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Jason Korkin
> > Sent: Monday, February 22, 1999 12:13 PM
> > To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> > Subject: Re: New Question: PGP and SSL security question
> >
> >
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Jason Korkin
> > <jkorkin@korksoft.com>     ******
> >
> > Jeff,
> >     PGP is actually probably a MORE SECURE method; however, with
> > the advent of SSL, and the
> > little "lock and key" on most browsers now adays, people feel
> > more secure putting their
> > credit card numbers over the internet.  You will most definately
> > lose orders...
> >
> >     Jason Korkin.
> >
> > Jeff Platt wrote:
> >
> > > ******    message to minivend-users from Jeff Platt
> > <jplatt@hq.marh.gov.bc.ca>     ******
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Let us say that I am in a position where I cannot use the SSL
> or have a
> > > secure server set up.  I still would like to take credit card
> > numbers from
> > > our customers and have them manually processed by a staff
> > member.  Is the
> > > PGP option used with MiniVend adequate enough for credit card
> > security from
> > > the application to the specified staff member?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeff Platt
> > > Programmer/Analyst
> > > Library Services Branch
> > > Ministry of Municipal Affairs
> > > e-mail:  jplatt@hq.marh.gov.bc.ca
> > > Website: http:// www.bcpl.gov.bc.ca
> > > Phone:  (250) 356-0413
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