Electronic business
L. Todd Masco
cactus at bb.com
Wed Jul 6 18:43:45 PDT 1994
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 at bb.com | info at bb.com | "Information is the currency of democracy."
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