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Re: the limits of crypto and authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Amir Herzberg)
Thu Jul 14 12:33:54 2005
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Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:43:15 +0200
From: Amir Herzberg <herzbea@macs.biu.ac.il>
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To: pfarrell@pfarrell.com
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Pat Farrell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 23:43 -0400, Rich Salz wrote:
>
>>>I think that by eliminating the need for a merchant to learn
>>>information about your identity ...
>>
>>Wasn't that a goal of SET?
>
> As I recall, the goal of SET was to have a standard
> that was not invented by CyberCash. (I may be biased, I
> worked at CyberCash at the time).
This is incorrect. The main politics around SET was the artificial
`merger` of iKP (from IBM & Mastercard) and STT (from Visa and MS). As
far as I remember, CyberCash were involved but choose not to. They also
did not disclose their protocol like the other proposals. I may be wrong
about the CyberCash role, though, it was a while, and I don't think it
matters so much...
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