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Re: Are paypal buttons secure from e-lifting? Is this data secure?

To: Mifa <mifa@stangercorp.com>
Subject: Re: Are paypal buttons secure from e-lifting? Is this data secure?
From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:45:57 +0300 (IDT)
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Hi.

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Mifa wrote:
> I have set up a webpage that allows payments via paypal.  Is it
> secure?

This depends on what is your threat model.

> Below is the data submitted (as seen with tamper data)
> [...]
> 1) Can this be decrypted?  This string is after all hard coded into the 
> paypal button.
>     a)If so how?
> 2) What apps might decode and recode this data.

First you need to urldecode it, e.g., `%2F' is `/', `%3D' is `=', and
`+' is ` ' (space) after it is looks like a base64-encoded data (you
can use, e.g., `openssl base64 -d' to decode it) and PKCS#7
(Cryptographic Message Syntax Standard) can also be decoded by
openssl.

-- 
Regards,
ASK

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