[thelist] Collecting secure customer data
Daniel J. Cody
djc at starkmedia.com
Thu Dec 28 13:58:41 CST 2000
Warden, Matt wrote:
>> Here's a creative question. Using a Unix server running Apache, is there
>> any way I can collect sensitive customer information without using SSL. Oh
>> and I don't have Telnet access either (I know, it's a free service!).
>>
>> I can use any other common technology (e.g. Java etc.). I'm thinking
>> perhaps using a form script that encrypts the data and stores it in a
>> protected file (?) on the server awaiting download??
>>
>> Any creative solutions?
>
>
> Well, what do you mean by "secured"? If you are talking about "transmitting"
> the data from client to server, you really only have SSL to deal with. If
+1
If you're not worried about the transmission being secure, just the
storage of the data, you can pass the info to a perl script that can
write it to a directory on the server and then run another script to run
an encryption algorithm on the file. Of course, I'm simplifying a bit
here, but we'd probably need more info to help :)
.djc.
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