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Re: Article on passwords in Wired News
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Mon Jun 7 13:01:17 2004
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 15:09:28 +1000
To: Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>,
Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 21:04 2004-06-06 -0400, Adam Fields wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:06:20AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> > Citibank in India experimented with a special case of this a few years ago
> > - "online credit cards" - basically, a credit card number valid for one
> use
> > only, which would be ideal for online purchasing.
> >
> > IIRC, the offering was withdrawn because there weren't enough takers.
>
>American Express still does this, although it's difficult to find and use.
>
>They call it "Private Payments".
Actually, they just discontinued it too, as of end of may.
Greg.
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