andbria1 Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 Hi there, just a quick question... I am building a secure website and I'm using the php mail() function to email personal details which I would like to keep safe from hackers/sniffers ect. The site is https and has ssl crt. The form data entered by the user is encrypted and then sent to the server where it is decrypted. Some of this data is then emailed to me. What I wanted to know was, is this data I'm sending through the mail() function encrypted by default or do I need to do something else to encrypt it? Any help is greatly appreciated Birco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonnoTheDev Posted May 26, 2009 Share Posted May 26, 2009 SSL has nothing to do with email. For encrypted email you need something like PGP on your server. Take a look at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy http://www.pantz.org/software/php/pgpemailwithphp.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andbria1 Posted May 26, 2009 Author Share Posted May 26, 2009 Thanks for the help, I assumed that would be the case... just hopefull I guess. I will have a look at the links. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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