Robert Hettinga wrote: | Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 09:47:06 -0400 | From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@rpcp.mit.edu> | To: Multiple recipients of <e$@thumper.vmeng.com> | ATLANTA, April 9 (Reuter) - The new security protocol for | Steve Mott, senior vice president of electronic commerce | and new ventures for MasterCard International, said it could | take hackers as little as a year to break the industry's | standard encryption code, which is supposed to render | credit-card numbers unreadable to outsiders on the Internet's | World Wide Web. The security problem with SET is not its crypto, but its complexity, which makes it impossible to determine if the thing is secure or not. Its also a nightmare to implement, and was supposed to be ready six months ago. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume