[ic] Secure?

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 01:43 PM 10/31/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> > Does the cart need to be on a secure site in order for the credit card
> > processing to take place?  My merchant account is working manually, but not
> > through the system.  I did not have the ability at the time to make a 
> secure
> > area.  I assumed that the PGP might help me encrypt what I needed.  I am
> > using IC Verify ‹ I think.
>
>A secure web site certificate provides encryption between the end user's
>computer and the server that the web site resides on.
>
>PGP provides encryption for the e-mail that gets sent from the server to
>the store administrator.
>
> >From the "pure theory" point of view, credit card processing can occur on
>a non-secure site.

Lets not get that thread started again. :-)

>   In practice though, you'd really better provide a
>secure site so that customers can be reasonably assured that their data is
>safe.  Comodo Security Services (http://www.comodo.net) provides low-cost
>site certificates (around $50 per year) that would get you up and running
>just fine.

According to:

http://www.whichssl.com/faq/compatibility.html

Verisign and Thawte are the only ones that are compatible with IE 4 and 
4.01.  With InstantSSL, Entrust, and "Baltimore" being added with 
5.00.  I'm not sure which branch comodo resells.  Qualityssl.com is doing a 
promotion for a $25 cert.

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