[thelist] secure forms and e-commerce etc

[Liam Delahunty]

Tony Page wrote:

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I have a secure server available to me on my virtual hosting accounts.
So I can put secure forms on my websites and get eg cc info safely sent
to me on the same server via sendmail. But if I then download this info
via my email account this is insecure, right?
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You could:
1. enable secure email.
2. Only send some of the info. Meaning, you send (insecure) email saying
such and such has been ordered, or whatever, and then a link to the secure
area of the web site to look up the full data on an encrypted connection.
3. send full details encrypted to your public key.

I use 3 mainly; I use http://www.gnupg.org/ on the server and
http://www.pgpi.org/ locally, so encrypt the contents on the email before
sending.

Kind regards, Liam Delahunty
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