[47315] in Cypherpunks
Re: new web security product
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jan 16 15:05:53 1996
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 1996 13:33:03 CST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 14:48:19 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" writes:
> I wouldn't pass this along normally, but it seems to allow folks to use
> their credit cards at home securely. Bye-bye, First Virtual... ;)
>
> http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9601/encryption/index.html
I don't think its going to fly. No one wants to pay for an unneeded
$100 piece of hardware to encrypt the same credit card over and over
again, when a nearly zero marginal cost piece of software can do the
same thing.
Perry
