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California has passed a law that will take effect July 1 2003 that governs all e-commerce sites doing business in California (all of us). For more details see: http://www.securityfocus.com/news/1984. The most important result of the law is that companies can be legally liable for damages if they store sensitive personal information such as credit card numbers in a database and that database is stolen/hacked/compromised.

 

One of the implications of the law is that companies should encrypt sensitive personal data such as credit card numbers. That way, even if a database is hacked, this sensitive data will remain (more or less) secure.

 

I think OSC should only store credit card numbers (orders table, cc_number column) in an encrypted format.

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The ROT13 loophole? An exception in the law says companies don't have to disclose a breach if the stolen data was stored in an encrypted form. But it doesn't say the encryption has to be strong. "If someone were to hack into the system... obtain the encrypted contents, and are able to unencrypt them, does that trigger the disclosure requirements?," asks Pink. "As I read the legislation, that' s not entirely clear."

 

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=cipher

 

With that in place all you need do is 'encrypt' it with a system like this:

 

CC# 1234567890

 

crappybackcipher system encoded:

CC# 0987654321

 

:)

 

-Sorti

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Can someone post a link here where I can find details on cc encryption for oscommerce?

 

You can try out this contribution, which includes encrypting the credit card number, http://www.oscommerce.com/community/contributions,1148.

 

I only used the encryption/decryption part of this contrib since I use the ECHO payment contrib for the processing and not the CC feature in OSC. So far I have had no problems with it.

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