topic Benefits of MD5 Hash with AIM in Integration and Testing

Benefits of MD5 Hash with AIM

joshss — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:15:22 GMT

Hi,

The documentation that I have found indicates that the MD5 hash security feature is available when using AIM but is not necessary. Does anyone know if there is any benefit provided or a certain use case where using the MD5 hash would be valuable when using AIM? Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh

Re: Benefits of MD5 Hash with AIM

Trevor — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:44:10 GMT

The MD5 hash is an extra security measure used to confirm that youa re actually communicating with Authorize.Net. Because the hash is generated using a secret key known only to you and Authorize.Net, a false response would not contain a valid hash.