How to Decrypt Encrypted Forms through API

  • rshreve
    Asked on March 8, 2019 at 2:32 PM

    Hello -

    We're trying to extend our application so that we can safely and securely handle to submission of social security numbers which we need to collect for federal tax reasons. I'm wondering if its possible to retrieve submissions from your API on a form that has been encrypted. For example, I'd like to have the user fill out the form including name, email, address, and social security number and then retrieve submission data (except for Social Security Number) in our internal systems (via API). Is this possible?

    Thanks,

    Ryan

  • Elton Support Team Lead
    Replied on March 8, 2019 at 5:18 PM

    Yes, that's possible. Here's our API Documentation https://api.jotform.com/docs/

    Here's a simple example to decrypt encrypted forms.

    You just have to revert the base64 encoding to binary and decrypt it with OpenSSL.