[149] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Fee for Service Internet Traffic [was Re: Information ...]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Perry)
Tue Nov 13 10:56:52 1990
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 90 10:42:02 -0500
From: cperry@gateway.mitre.org (Chris Perry)
To: SEAN@dranet.dra.com, com-priv@psi.com, kwe@buitb.bu.edu
The only problem with sending VISA/MC numbers over the net is that
somebody else can copy them, even inadvertently, into a crook's hands.
There are already too many cases of phone fraud where goods and services
are ordered with a stolen card numbers.
I wonder if there isn't some way of sending a vendor a charge card number
over the network without risking its compromise. A good opportunity for
a public-key cryptographic service, yes?
Chris
