[48957] in Cypherpunks
Re: Prediction about new credit card number scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Weinstein)
Thu Feb 1 22:11:18 1996
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 19:00:40 -0800
From: Jeff Weinstein <jsw@netscape.com>
To: Thomas Grant Edwards <tedwards@Glue.umd.edu>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
Thomas Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> >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.
I believe that there will be a public review period.
--Jeff
--
Jeff Weinstein - Electronic Munitions Specialist
Netscape Communication Corporation
jsw@netscape.com - http://home.netscape.com/people/jsw
Any opinions expressed above are mine.
