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Mercantec to Incorporate PGP Encryption

[October 29] Chicago-based Mercantec Inc., a provider of retail electronic commerce solutions, said it signed an agreement to incorporate Pretty Good Privacy Inc.'s (PGP) encryption software with its Mercantec SoftCart virtual store application.
The agreement will make PGP's encryption an integral part of the SoftCart virtual store software package, as opposed to requiring online merchants to purchase additional security software and integrating it themselves, the company said.
Financial details were not disclosed. By integrating San Mateo, CA-based PGP's 128-bit encryption, Mercantec SoftCart "becomes the first virtual store software to incorporate PGP's protection at the server level as a turnkey part of its offering," the company said.
SoftCart has always supported SSL encryption to protect shoppers' credit card information over the Web. In addition, Mercantec has encouraged merchants to use PGP encryption from the time the order is complete until a merchant retrieves the order on his own PC. Integrating PGP into SoftCart now makes the process of protecting customer orders from potential hackers at an ISP's server or merchant's own Web server simple and invisible to the merchant.
"Web merchants and consumers are concerned about stolen credit card numbers and orders on the Internet, so Mercantec wants to ensure we're doing all we can to make it easy to protect SoftCart merchants and their online customers," said Bill Tait, vice president, product management at Mercantec. "Now even if the server or the merchant's PC is illegally accessed, merchants can rest assured that their transactions will still be secure."
Mercantec has partnered with a worldwide network of more than 60 Internet Service Providers and Web hosting companies, including Hiway Technologies, MindSpring, and PSINet, to offer hosting and electronic commerce solutions to merchants.