[13726] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
google crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Davis)
Sun Jun 29 10:28:18 2003
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <a06001820bb2389ebedb2@[209.86.6.192]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 22:21:59 -0400
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: Don Davis <don@mit.edu>
does anyone know anything about AP's claim that Google
"encrypts" credit-card numbers? specifically, which
cipher and what kind of key management do they use?
- don davis, boston
---------------------------------------------------------
From: "Google puts new gadgets in browser"
Friday, June 27, 2003
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/27/google.gadgets.ap/index.html
"The new software out Thursday for the [Google] toolbar
includes ... a program that automatically fills out
Internet forms seeking a customer's name and address.
"The function that fills in forms offers an option to
store credit card numbers too, but the information
is encrypted on the hard drive of a user's computer
instead of Google's computers, for security and
privacy reasons."
-
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
