a question on security....
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:01 am
if you are working on an ecommerece website what security measures would you take to keep the part and order data secure?
thanx.
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can you please mention encryption method or algorithom that you will use.As for the application, If I was saving any kind of credit cart information I would use encryption on the DB. I
Are you talking about hasing or encryption? There is a very big difference: think of hasing as a unique fingerprint of the original value (supposed to be unreversible), while encryption if the obscuration of information (can be reversed). For hasing, I would use no less than our very own feyd's implementation of SHA256 hasing properly used with a salt, although you may want to refer to onion2k's post here about encryption.can you please mention encryption method or algorithom that you will use.
To me it sounds like your not very experienced in this field, and from your last comment I suspect new to programming. In that case, I would suggest you to NOT tackle an e-commerce project, especially if you are not well versed in security practices.The next question is : how you can keep track of what has been done, and what is still left to do ?