[48625] in Cypherpunks
Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit Cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Tue Jan 30 06:00:33 1996
From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
To: nsb@nsb.fv.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:57:02 GMT
On Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:07:46 -0500 (EST), Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
>[My apologies in advance if you see several copies of this message. I
>am posting this fairly widely due to the severity and importance of the
>problem described.]
>As you may already have heard via the popular press, First Virtual
>Holdings has developed and demonstrated a program which completely
>undermines the security of every known credit-card encryption mechanism
>for Internet commerce. This is a very serious matter, and we want to
>make sure that the Internet community is properly informed about the
[..]
All that over keyboard grabbers???
*yawn* This is nothing new at all.
