[48938] in Cypherpunks
Prediction about new credit card number scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Grant Edwards)
Thu Feb 1 18:22:42 1996
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 18:15:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>By JOHN MARKOFF AN FRANCISCO --
>Hoping to remove a major impediment to credit card transactions over the
>Internet, a business group led by Mastercard International and Visa
>International plans to announce an industry-standard technology Thursday
>for protecting the security of electronic payments.
My prediction about the new CC standard: it will be a mistake if they
don't pass on the details to cypherpunks.
BTW - are any micropayment schemes reving up to commerciality yet???
-Thomas
