Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down

Dave Howe DaveHowe at gmx.co.uk
Wed Jun 4 04:02:23 PDT 2003


Bill Frantz wrote:
> I know of one system that takes credit cards over HTTPS, and then
> sends the credit card number, encrypted with GPG to a backend system
> for processing.
For that matter, our system here discards the CC after use (the pre-auth
step with the merchant bank agent gives us back a "fulfillment handle" that
can only be used to fulfill or cancel that individual transaction - but of
course Amazon *want* to keep your CC details so they can do their
fast-checkout patented thingy.





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