John,
Also check out logi.crypto at http://www.hi.is/~logir/logi.crypto/
We found it easier to use than Cryptix.
It is free if you release your software under a GPL or $100 if you don't
want to
do that.
Rob Griffin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quest Software Pty Ltd
303 High St, Ashburton, Vic. 3147 Australia
http://www.quest.com
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> API Technology. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Lame,
> John
> Sent: Wednesday, 15 September 1999 21:06
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: (off topic) encrypting credit card info
>
>
> >>We receive credit card information (and we are using SSL) and we would
> >>simply like to encrypt the data before we place it in the database and
> >>decrypt it after retrieving it.
>
> >Why do you need to decrypt the number?
> >You have the encrypted number in your database.
> >You receive a number that is not encrypted.
>
> The short answer is that management wants two-way encryption.
> I suppose a longer answer is that we probably need to decrypt
> the credit card number in order to bill our customers. (I say
> probably because I'm new to this project so I'm unfamiliar with
> most of what it does.).
>
> John.
>
> p.s. I'm making progress btw. http://www.cryptix.org seems to have
> a usefull library of tools for this sort of this thing. If I do come up
> with something short and sweet. I'll post.
>
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