Hi everyone,
I've created a form using Acrobat Professional 9. It will be stored up on a website for people to download and fill in. The form, which is a registration form for an event, will be asking for sensitive information such as credit card details and will be submitted by the user and emailed back to us.
Since this credit card information will be submitted by email, I need to find a way to encrypt the pdf so that it doesn't end up in the wrong hands.
Can someone tell me if there is a way to do this?
Really appreciate any help.
What I would suggest for you to do, is since you plan on collecting and processing credit card information, you should read the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_DSS#Requirements]requirements[/url] for the PCI-DSS. Also, industry standard accepts SSL encryption of 128bit and higher when using an HTTPS server. You could submit the form to your secure server to hold in a database temporarily until you process that particular card and then delete it. I'm in the midst of doing something similar to this, but because the company we're dealing with doesn't process the cards themselves, we hand off the credit processing part to an online processor and let them worry about the liability. :)