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actors3
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Forcing Encryption on Forms?
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April 12, 2007, 12:58:09 PM »
In order to be more secure on forms I have updated my form script to NMS and use https both in links to the forms and in the form action script, but I have been told that it's a good idea to force encryption on the initial page where users enter data on the form.
Any tips on how to do this?
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Re: Forcing Encryption on Forms?
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April 12, 2007, 02:32:43 PM »
They told you
what
? That makes no sense. The form fields are on the browser's PC "in the clear". There's no way to encrypt the data on the PC. When submitted, SSL (https) will encrypt them for transmission. On the
server
, you should be thinking about how to protect this data once it's been received (e.g., encrypt before storing in a database). Your PHP or Perl CGI script will see the data "in the clear", and processing will be plaintext too, but if it's sensitive data you may want to encrypt it before writing it to a database or remailing to another account or system. I'm not sure what tools PHP or Perl offers to encrypt.
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Re: Forcing Encryption on Forms?
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November 07, 2007, 03:39:16 PM »
Does anyone know how to do this? I have a similar problem. Trying to securely capture user-provided information from a form and keep the data secure. Obviously can't send it by email, so how do I securely transfer it to the server?
how do I transfer it to a database?
how do I set up the database?
and how do I keep it encrypted (or do I have to keep it encrypted once it is transfered to the database on the LP server? after all is that not secure already and only accessible to the account admin? and to LP staff of course)?
If anyone can show me how to do this and knows where I can find the appropriate script to do this it would be very helpful. THank you very much for your time and consideration.
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