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Monday, March 26

Poor Man's Secure Commerce
A primer for Delta Tao, and others who find a secure web site too daunting a task.


  1. Download PGPi from the International PGP page.
  2. Create a PGP key for a "Secure Billing" (billing@your-domain.com)
  3. Publish the key on your insecure site, informing customers they may use PGP to send secure messages if they wish.
  4. Check the email address periodically, and decrypt the messages.
  5. Pat yourself on the back for doing something about customer security.


So, that may not be a perfect solution, but it's some kind of solution. And if you ever manage to get SSL working on ONE page of your web site, you can provide a form that will take information from a user, encrypt it with PGP, and send it to billing@your-domain.com! Oh my God, you have a secure way for your customers to contact you, and they don't even need PGP!

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