[48847] in Cypherpunks
Re: Flaw in Netscape rejoinder (was Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit Cards)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Iannotti)
Wed Jan 31 19:23:55 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 19:14:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Tony Iannotti <tony@secapl.com>
To: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@nsb.fv.com>
Cc: Pete Loshin <pete@loshin.com>, Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
In-Reply-To: <gl3zCVKMc50e1T2Rsa@nsb.fv.com>
On Wed, 31 Jan 1996, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
> choice of FV vs encryption is an either/or thing. Combine FV's Virtual
> PIN mechanism with transport encryption and you've indiputably got
> something that's a LOT safer than just using credit cards with
> encryption, and a bit safer than our current system, too. But I know,
Belt & Suspenders is Good (and you want the best and best tested of both.)
I may be being naive, but I think the contest profits all, so as brothers
fight ye! ;-)
