I think the tech support guy is wrong, second opinion please

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zeek
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I think the tech support guy is wrong, second opinion please

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I made a simple php shopping cart that emails orders to the client. I am renting a 'secure server' on which I am hosting the cart. I had to upload the public key for the client's email address. I thought that this was all I had to do so that the emails would be encrypted. They are not being encrypted. The tech support guy now says that it's a problem with my php script, because it is supposed to encrypt the email. Is this correct? How do you encrypt an email with php with a pgp key? Please help.
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Post by feyd »

I don't do encrypted emails, so I can't help in that specific, but I'll agree with your "tech" that it does need to be encrypted.

http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/package/378.html may be of interest.
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Post by Ambush Commander »

You could always interface directly with gpg, but yeah, the tech support is right.
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