On Fri, 2 Dec 1994, Andrew Lowenstern wrote:
FV does in fact have a bunch of e-mail addresses that will auto-forward some info sheets to you. I have attached the info to this message.
After having read Doug Barnes message (<9412021548.AA17294@tadpole>) I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks FV is a joke. The entire security of the system rests on the difficulty of intercepting and forging e-mail. Forging e-mail is dead easy, intercepting isn't much harder. While the implementors are correct that an online payment-system will have to be simple to use in order to gain wide acceptance, sacrificing all security for ease of use is a grave mistake. It just begging to be ripped off, providing people actually sell something via FV worth ripping off.
Ok, so what are our options, given that this company seems to think of security in terms of a plastic padlock. From corresponding posts on the list, the only other alternative, Digicash, doesn't seem to be too responsive to anyone's participation right now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Terka | werewolf@io.org | public key (werewolf) by Toronto,Canada | dg507@cleveland.freenet.edu | public key server or request ---------------------------------------------------------------------------