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Re: New Credit Card Scam (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Jul 12 13:12:16 2005

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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:30:08 -0700
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    --
Adam Fields <cryptography23094893@aquick.org>
> But it's so much worse than that. Not only is there no
> standard behavior, the credit companies themselves
> have seemingly gone out of their way to make it
> impossible for there to be any potential for a 
> standard.

Widely shared secrets are inherently insecure, and no
good practices exist to make them secure. 

    --digsig
         James A. Donald
     6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG
     pPiA9t4S8XPLqBdKsuV/tb+p7tvWdaBMwkYer7hl
     4+JSXe6MBo4npe1jgiYmnZNAqOAsX9u+daHcBra01



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