Thursday, March 22, 2012

Encryption and storing credit cards

We need to store credit cards for a limited amount of time because we charge for orders as they ship and occasionally the authorization expires before the item can ship.

I know I can use AES_256 to encrypt our credit cards but I am not sure if all I need to do is follow the directions in the "How-to" for encrypting data.

I created the master key, backed it up off the server the certificate and the symmetric key and I can encrypt and decrypt data.

Is this all I need to do or am I missing something?

Sounds like you have it under control. The 'How to' is nicely put together.

The next step is to test, test, test.

|||I have been testing and keep thinking in the back of my head "This is much too easy. I must be doing something wrong."

I got the encryption working on the second try.|||Microsoft got it right. It really shouldn't be difficult.

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