POS-partner Credit Service Requires Browser Upgrade
Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Dear DDMS Credit Card and Approval Link Customers:
DDMS® Approval Link™ 2.0 and Approval Link™ Plus serve as the gateway for credit card authorizations between your DDMS software and the Vital® POS-partner payment processing application.
If you use this credit card authorization service, you must upgrade the machine where you installed POS-partner to the latest version of Microsoft® Internet Explorer by Monday, November 1, 2004. You can do this by going to www.microsoft.com/windowsupdate.
This upgrade will protect the continuity and security of your credit card authorization services, and will ensure that the machine complies with POS-partner’s minimum encryption requirements.
Vital’s original announcement is as follows:
“Vital Processing Services requires the use of 128-bit or stronger ciphers for encryption when performing transactions across the Internet using VirtualNet® Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Effective Monday, November 1, 2004, Vital will no longer permit SSL encryption-strength downgrades on the VirtualNet SSL 1.0 (HTTPS) gateways. As of this date, merchants who use software that does not satisfy the 128-bit encryption requirement will not be permitted to access the VirtualNet SSL 1.0 (HTTPS) gateways. VirtualNet SSL 2.0 is not affected by this change.
“All merchants using POS Partner 2000 will be required to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) to satisfy this requirement. Merchants may obtain the latest version of IE from Microsoft's website at www.microsoft.com/windowsupdate
“Merchants using third party SSL capable POS software or applications should contact their software or POS provider to determine any potential impact because of this change.”
Upgrading the Internet browser on your POS-partner machine will not have any negative impact on your DDMS system. However, if you do not upgrade the browser on your POS-partner machine, you risk failed credit card transactions. ECi strongly encourages you to comply with Vital’s requirements.
If you have other questions about this announcement, please contact POS-partner Support at 1-800-847-2772 or use their Web site at www.pos-partner.com.
Sincerely,
ECi Technical Support