Pardon me if I sound a little excited, but: tonight, Bibliobytes made it's first customer transaction! As far as I know, this makes us the first business in history (to be melodramatic about it) to conduct business *entirely* over the public networks -- the order w/ CC num was encrypted w/ RSA, we did the verification electronically on our node (true, through a modem to a third party -- we need infrastructure for e$!), and mailed the result back to the customer, all in about 15 minutes. (It'll get faster as I write the automation code.) Am I correct? Are we the first? (And we issued a PGP-signed receipt, too!) -- Todd [BTW, I acknowledge that I snagged the T. Jefferson quote from someone here on C'punks. It's just too appropriate -- thanks!] -- L. Todd Masco | Bibliobytes books on computer, on any UNIX host with e-mail. cactus@bb.com | info@bb.com | "Information is the currency of democracy."