new web security product

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Tue Jan 16 15:28:37 PST 1996



"Ed Carp, KHIJOL SysAdmin" writes:
> I wouldn't pass this along normally, but it seems to allow folks to use
> their credit cards at home securely.  Bye-bye, First Virtual... ;)
> 
> 	http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9601/encryption/index.html

I don't think its going to fly. No one wants to pay for an unneeded
$100 piece of hardware to encrypt the same credit card over and over
again, when a nearly zero marginal cost piece of software can do the
same thing.

Perry






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