[706] in WWW Security List Archive
Re: HP e-commerce protocol
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Herve Schauer)
Tue May 16 22:04:43 1995
From: schauer@hsc.fr.net (Herve Schauer)
To: linehan@watson.ibm.com (Mark H Linehan/Watson/IBM Research)
Date: Wed, 17 May 1995 00:16:51 +0100 (MET)
Cc: www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9505161707.AA1704@watlny03.watson.ibm.com> from "Mark H Linehan/Watson/IBM Research" at May 16, 95 01:06:28 pm
Errors-To: owner-www-security@ns2.rutgers.edu
In his/her message, Mark H Linehan/Watson/IBM Research wrote:
>4. You argue an advantage in "international compatibility" because you don't
>use encryption. However, both iKP and CyberCash have received U.S. export
>permission for schemes that involve RSA encryption of limited amounts of order
>information. I don't know how France and Russia and any other countries that
>control encryption technology will react, but I would suggest that they may
>also accept limited usage of encryption. So "international compatibility" is
>not necessarily a unique advantage of the HP protocol.
For France, there is no real problem for using encryption in
payement systems.
HERVE
