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wrote:
Hello,
I use Flex and Amfphp with php / mySql.
In the database, I want to encrypt Credit card number with MD5.
How to add this functionnality ?
Thank you,
Christophe,
MD5 is a one way hash so it's not like you can use the number meaningfully
later on or get the card number back.
There are other alternatives to credit card processing...payments gateways.
Sorry to toot my own horn here, but we use Google checkout and Paypal simply
because we
PCI Compliance is a nightmare. ;)
I'm sure Amazon.com goes through the process of being PCI compliant; and has
high level security for storing and encrypting credit cards. For example, I'm
sure their credit card storage machines are in a secure building [with guards
and limited access] on
You need to make your superiors aware of the PCI Compliance regulations.
You're not actually breaking the law, but you may be breaking your contract
with your merchant provider. I read all 80+ pages or so of my merchant account
contract. Someone at your company should do the same to make
At 12:51 PM 2/11/2010, you wrote:
You need to make your superiors aware of the PCI Compliance regulations.
You're not actually breaking the law, but you may be breaking your
contract with your merchant provider. I read all 80+ pages or so of
my merchant account contract. Someone at your
That is unequivocally wrong.
However, depending what you're doing there are different levels of Compliance.
Since you are storing credit cards; I thought you get bumped up to the highest
level of compliance.
DotComIt ( Flextras ) does a self assessment questionnaire and a quarterly web
site
Jeff wrote:
That is unequivocally wrong.
As I said, that was my understanding and it was so when the mandate was first
released, but I assume that it was phased out in one of the steps to full
PCI/DSS or maybe it is different for web facing models? I'll ask my compliance
rep next time I
I know the mandates have gotten stricter after they have been released. It
sounds like you've been dealing with it longer than I have.
Without a doubt a lot of compliance issues have very little to do with coding,
but rather relate to administrative type of issues for how data is handled and
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