Exactly as, with any public cflib encryption technique it will show you hope
to encrypt it, but conversly it will show you how to decrypt it.

does mySQL have a hashing function anyway?

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Moretti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 17 September 2003 17:00
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ cf-dev ] Credit card encryption


Andrew,

You need to use some form of encryption that uses public and private 
keys. eg. PGP

You store the public key on the server and the private key somewhere 
else.  You encrypt using the public key, but can only decrypt using the 
private key. As long as the private key isn't on the server and kept in 
a safe place then your CC details should be fairly secure.

Regards

Stephen


Andrew Levett wrote:
> Afternoon all,
> 
> I know its not best practice but we need to store credit card details in
> a MySQL db, does anyone know of a safe way to encrypt the cc number?  
> 
> The main problem I see is that the key will need to be stored within the
> db as well - therefore I am thinking of using some of the data already
> in the db as the key.
> 
> Anyone got a better idea?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
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