[310] in WWW Security List Archive
RE: Credit Card Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Tidswell)
Sun Jan 15 23:25:35 1995
From: Jonathon Tidswell <t-jont@microsoft.com>
To: bob@uspan.com, www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 95 11:31:11 TZ
Reply-To: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
Bob Cappel wrote:
> I wanted to know if anyone had a suggestion for a temporary solution for
> credit card number processing.
>
> Do I need to put up an entirely secure server or is there another method?
Even using strong encryption requires an entirely secure(*) server somewhere.
This somewhere being (at least) the decryption point.
(*) Whatever "entirely secure" means.
- JonT
Disclaimer:
A postgraduate scholarship student not an employee ...
