[41482] in Cypherpunks
Re: Certificate proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Weinstein)
Sat Oct 14 18:01:56 1995
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 1995 14:57:23 -0700
From: tomw@orac.engr.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: daw@lagos.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of Sat, 14 Oct 1995 01:30:12 GMT
Reply-To: tomw@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
In article <DGF06D.HGJ@sgi.sgi.com>, daw@lagos.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner) writes:
> In article <199510120147.LAA13833@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>,
> Jiri Baum <jirib@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>> What you are missing is that you should not say
>> "I want to send my credit card number to Egghead Software"
>> you should say
>> "I want to send my credit card number to 12 34 56 78 9A BC DE F0"
> Why does this sound so much like defining the problem away?
> Maybe I just don't get it...
I agree. Sending your cc# to a key or an IP address is not what you
want to do. As a consumer, I want to make sure that I send my cc# to
the merchant I am buying from.
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