public private email - explantion needed plz.

[bazz]

Hi,

trying to plan how to send secure data from a shopping cart to my clients' email address (uniquely for this purpose).

I think I need to encrypt the form submission using a public key (?) and then issue the client with a private key so that they can decrypt it for reading.

would anyone please point me to a plave where I can learn the technicalities of what this all entails? I suppose best put; I need to understand what I am trying to do so that I can then build the program to do it.

maybe there is a module but I don't see it on cpan.
Bazz

[nkrgupta]

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maybe there is a module but I don't see it on cpan.
Bazz

http://search.cpan.org/~maral/CGI-EncryptForm-1.02/EncryptForm.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~jwied/HTML-EP-MSWin32/lib/HTML/EP/CGIEncryptForm.pm

These are the ones you can try out.

Though i don't know a thing about implementing keys, following modules relate to the same and might help if you wish to go that way --
http://search.cpan.org/~vipul/Crypt-RSA-1.57/lib/Crypt/RSA/Key.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~vipul/Crypt-RSA-1.57/lib/Crypt/RSA/Key/Public.pm
http://search.cpan.org/~vipul/Crypt-RSA-1.57/lib/Crypt/RSA/Key/Private.pm

Naveen

[bazz]

Thanks Naveen,

I have since found GPG (http://directory.fsf.org/gnuPG.html).

Absolutley baffled with it. Do I need a locally installed server in order to generate keys?

Bazz