"L. Todd Masco" <cactus@bibliob.slip.netcom.com> writes: 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$!), and mailed the result back to the customer, all in about 15 minutes. (It'll get faster as I write the automation code.)
Am I correct? Are we the first?
The first what? On 8 June 94 I sent a PGP message to ACM.ORG requesting an account and enclosing a signed authorization to use my VISA card to set up an account; inside the signed text I specified that I authorized charges for one year's worth of mail forwarding. I received a (non-PGP) receipt the next day, and my account was active. My message and the product were both on the net. If the payment in your transaction was in e$, then I don't have a counterexample to your claim... Jim Gillogly Sterday, 14 Afterlithe S.R. 1994, 02:29