RE: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-09 Thread Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]
From: Dwight Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Peter Beckman' [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: php-db@lists.php.net Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:24:05 -0600 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;

RE: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely,two-way encryption

2006-01-09 Thread Dwight Altman
Did you actually SNIP the document[ation] how it can be done safely for all the world to see and learn! ??? Or are you saying go buy this book? No, I retyped the passage in its entirety from the book. Learn to SNIP your posts ! Cheers - Neil -- Neil, Perhaps you replied directly to the

RE: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely,two-way encryption

2006-01-09 Thread Dwight Altman
Neil, Perhaps you replied directly to the thread starter. My bad. It was in Friday's batch or emails. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media]
-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John Meyer wrote: Peter Beckman wrote: So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. Yes yes, lawsuits, scary, etc. I'm glad

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely,two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Bastien Koert
] Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely,two-way encryption Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:52:25 + At 03:48 06/01/2006, you wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 22:48:24 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Beckman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: php-db@lists.php.net Message

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely,two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Julien Bonastre
Yes yes, lawsuits, scary, etc. I'm glad you're so blase about this and the threat of your business going under due to exposure to extortion. When you've got the site running, let me know the address, so I can advise my friends and colleagues to avoid it at any cost. Public key

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Vicente
Peter wrote: So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. I'm also thinking about how to save passwords in the DB, not plaintext, but not one-way encrypted either. Any suggestions? How would I secure the database?

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Neil Smith [MVP, Digital media] wrote: Peter Beckman wrote: So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. Yes yes, lawsuits, scary, etc. I'm glad you're so blase about this and the threat of

RE: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-05 Thread Bastien Koert
CC saving is a bad idea on a web facing server...much better to let the user re-input the data each time. If your network allows it, store the data encrypted (using php's mcrypt/decrypt extension) on an separate extremely limited access, non-webfacing (ie internal) db/server that only allows

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-05 Thread John Meyer
Peter Beckman wrote: So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. Why, is the first question I would ask you. First off, on a new order, why wouldn't you just save the authorization code, instead of the credit

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Beckman
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, John Meyer wrote: Peter Beckman wrote: So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the DB, for re-charging cards for subscriptions, new orders, etc. Why, is the first question I would ask you. So I'm thinking about how to save credit card numbers in the

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-05 Thread Peter Beckman
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Julien Bonastre wrote: Any reason why you need to have reversible encryption on the password value?? No... I just prefer to assume that if someone gets my DB, they might try using user/pass pairs on banking sites, or paypal, or other ways, and if I can reversible

Re: [PHP-DB] Storing Credit Cards, Passwords, Securely, two-way encryption

2006-01-05 Thread Julien Bonastre
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Julien Bonastre wrote: Any reason why you need to have reversible encryption on the password value?? No... I just prefer to assume that if someone gets my DB, they might try using user/pass pairs on banking sites, or paypal, or other ways, and if I can reversible