Well, I guess that begs the question -- is there an easy way to encrypt
something in Flex? Like ColdFusion's encrypt() function? Does Flex have
something like that built-in?
L.
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Booking Heaven <booking2hea...@...> wrote:
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> The best thing you have to do is you should encrypt it in client side before
> it is passed to webservice (whatever it is, https or http) because man in
> middle attack can tap your creditcard information before it is passed to
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> Reinhart
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> --- On Wed, 2/10/10, Laurence <lmacne...@...> wrote:
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> From: Laurence <lmacne...@...>
> Subject: [flexcoders] A security question...
> To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 6:18 PM
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> So, let's say I have a <mx:RemoteObject> in my program... I want it to
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> <mx:RemoteObject id="roPaymentInfo" destination= "ColdFusion"
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> showBusyCursor= "true" source="{'cfcs. dao.PaymentsDAO' }">
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> <mx:method name="getPayments" result="roGetPaymen tsResultHandler( event)"
> fault="roFaultHandl er(event) "/>
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> <mx:method name="addPayment" result="roAddPaymen tResultHandler( event)"
> fault="roFaultHandl er(event) "/>
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> Do I have to make my entire program secure via an https:// in the URL, or is
> there a way to encrypt just that one <mx:RemoteObject> ? If there is a way
> to secure just the one object, how is that done?
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> Laurence MacNeill
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> Mableton, Georgia, USA
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