Paypal Merchant Security Changes for 2016 require SSL

  • Resolved formerfatguy

    (@formerfatguy)


    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi..

    I’ve used WooCommerce for years now and have been in comms with Paypal for the past few months as they do their Merchant Security Upgrades.

    They have a roadmap for changes to SHA-256, certificates, and the like.

    Our site has to be SSL compliant in order for Woo to work with paypal, and just ordinary paypal communications between them and our site.

    I’ve read through the first 5 pages of support here, and am posting in free support vs priority so that others may see your response as well.

    What is happening or will be required for communications between our site with the Give plugin, to paypal and back?

    Will our site using only Give and no Woocommerce require to be SSL?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/give/

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  • Plugin Author Devin Walker

    (@dlocc)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Hi There,

    Thanks for your question. For PayPal Standard, what’s included by default in Give’s core, no changes are necessary. Check out this link for details: https://devblog.paypal.com/paypal-ssl-certificate-changes/

    Specifically:

    Upgrading is not required if you are using Website Payments Standard

    For premium users of the PayPal Add-on we offer:

    1. If you have SSL yourself, your certificate and its chain need SHA-256 not SHA-1 both for PayPal and modern browser support
    2. When you connect to PayPal’s server, your webserver must accommodate their SHA-256 certificate. Most hosting environments will be fine, but older environments lacking SHA-256 support in SSL libraries will not.

    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter formerfatguy

    (@formerfatguy)

    8 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, thank you

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