Re: NOVA credit card services and port 8100

Funny you should ask. I just got out of a conf call with them. Here's what
I know:

Port 8100...correct. TCP.

Encryption is based on what software you're using on the client end. If
it's NovaWarp, then yes it is encrypted and using some public algorithm but
I can't remember what (we did that part a month ago and are not going that
route). If you are using some sort of central site authorization
software/API such as Protobase it depends on the vendor.

Note that you can setup to go to them over the net or via some kind of
private line.

Their tech/security guy was on the call with us and he seems just as
paranoid as me so that was good.

That''s what I know at this point.

Don

At 10:21 AM 10/17/2001 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote:
>Is anyone familiar with the software that the NOVA credit card service
>distributes? Apparently to validate credit cards, etc, it needs access
>to port 8100 to a few of their sites. That port is currently blocked by
>our firewall. I don't know anything about the software and don't have a
>copy of it and I'm just wondering if/what kinds of encryption it uses
>and what protocol it uses (port 8100 is not in my /etc/services). Any
>help is greatly appreciated.
>
>--a
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