Certificate proposal
Tom Weinstein
tomw at orac.engr.sgi.com
Sat Oct 14 14:57:33 PDT 1995
In article <DGF06D.HGJ at sgi.sgi.com>, daw at lagos.CS.Berkeley.EDU (David A Wagner) writes:
> In article <199510120147.LAA13833 at sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>,
> Jiri Baum <jirib at sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>> What you are missing is that you should not say
>> "I want to send my credit card number to Egghead Software"
>> you should say
>> "I want to send my credit card number to 12 34 56 78 9A BC DE F0"
> Why does this sound so much like defining the problem away?
> Maybe I just don't get it...
I agree. Sending your cc# to a key or an IP address is not what you
want to do. As a consumer, I want to make sure that I send my cc# to
the merchant I am buying from.
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