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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Kristol)
Wed Oct 5 17:05:03 1994
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 94 08:46:31 EDT
From: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
To: pzee@express.com
Cc: www-buyinfo@allegra.att.com, www-security@ns1.rutgers.edu
Reply-To: dmk@allegra.att.com (Dave Kristol)
pzee@express.com (Philip J. Zee) writes [on www-security]:
> I have just subscribed to this list, and don't know if this question has
> been asked here before. Please forgive me if the question is already
> answered.
>
> I am writing an on-line ordering page with credit card information. What I
> would like to do is to transmit these numbers in a secure way so that
> nobody, except authorized personal, can see it and use it.
>
> Is there a way of doing this? I know comerence net is doing something like
> this, but not sure if they have a solution.
The CommerceNet folks are indeed addressing this problem. (Well, actually,
I think it's the folks at EIT who are doing so.)
In addition to www-security, you may find the discussions on the
www-buyinfo mailing list of interest. The topic there is conducting
commerce on WWW. For more information:
http://www.research.att.com/www-buyinfo
David M. Kristol
AT&T Bell Laboratories
