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How To Secure Your PayPal Links

Posted By: Tom B. at Work
Sunday, 12 March 2006, at 10:50 a.m.

In Response To: Paypal Advice (John)

> Hi,

> Whats the best way to secure paypal for taking online payments.

> I heard stories of people right clicking & going
> to your download link etc.

> What new tricks are the bad guys up to that I should be aware of.

> Thanks,

> John

Hi John,

You can secure your PayPal links by using tools available on PayPal's website.

Once you've logged in, follow these steps:

1. Click on the "Merchant Tools" tab.

2. On the right side, in the "Key Features" box, you'll see a link that says, "View All Features". Click on it.

3. On the next page, you'll see a series of options for creating buttons. For this exercise, we'll assume that you want to create a "Buy Now" button, but the steps will be similar for any button you want to create. So for now, click on the "Set It Up" link in the "Buy Now" section.

4. Fill in the blanks, as normal, for your product.

5. Towards the bottom of the page, you'll see a section entitled "Security Settings". In this section, there's a radio button you can select to encrypt your button. Ensure that it is set to "Yes" (the default).

Note that using this option will disable advanced options. If you need them, you'll need to find an alternate means of encrypting your button. You could do this by passing the basic values needed to a script on your web server (PHP or CGI), then having the script add the download details and etc. before it is sent to PayPal (NOTE: I have not tested this; there may be other security concerns that I am not aware of). I don't know of any scripts that will do this, but you could probably have one written at a site like elance or rentacoder fairly cheaply.

Whatever you do, DON'T use those products that claim that they will encrypt your HTML. All of them are JavaScript-based and are trivial to break if you know JavaScript. I have yet to find one that I cannot break.

Incidentally, PayPal's system is based on what's known as a public key system. Anybody can encrypt a button (using what's known as a public key), but once it's encrypted, only the private key can decrypt it -- and (hopefully) only PayPal has this key.

Again, this is only my opinion. I'm not in a position to offer advice or consultation.

Best regards,
Tom

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