Partial passwords

[GCC Consulting]

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> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Walter Vaughan
> Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:10 AM
> To: filePro
> Subject: Partial passwords
> 
> I'd like to add in some sort of PCI compliance into some of 
> our legacy filePro apps. Does anyone have some sort of edit 
> that would keep the credit card info, but would display it in 
> a PCI compliant form? Like if
> 4111111111111111 where stored, only show ************1111, 
> but still have the ability recover the entire field for 
> futher processing.
> 
> Don't think it'll be possible, without breaking the fields 
> apart, and beaking a ton of code.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> --
> Walter
Besides Ken's direct response, one could upgrade to 5.6 and use its field
encryption to store the number in an encrypted format and have a separate
field for the last 4.

This does have the advantage of safely storing the value and not allowing
anyone to see the real # unless they have the encryption key.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting