[17827] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: the limits of crypto and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Tue Jul 12 15:07:24 2005
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Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:01:24 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>,
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Anonymity is a concern to me, too, but I suspect that it is hard to
> get anonymity in a credit card transaction using current means, even
> if the merchant isn't online. Pseudonymity, perhaps.
Can we not aim higher than merely doing as badly as current systems do?
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