On Mon Jan 22, 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
REDWOOD CITY, CA - Netscape Communications Corp. and Verifone Inc. will devise a system to make electronic payments on the internet more secure.
Anyone know anything about this?
Reported in today's Wall Street Journal http://update.wsj.com/update/edit/w-netsca.html Basically Verifone's credit card processing technology (credit card verification) will be bundled with Netscape's Commerce server. Netscape also announced that the software will use new encryption technology being developed by MasterCard and Visa. I don't know what this quote means: That technology would break sensitive information like credit-card data into 1,024 bits of information, instead of the 128 bits used currently, theoretically making it much more difficult to steal. Howard