Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>
> I do not understand how I could encrypt my credit card number, transmit
> the encrypted number, and then have the recipient to decrypt the number
> unless the recipient had a compatible decryption engine and had
> knowledge of the original encryption key (i.e the password or pass
> phrase that I use to encrypt the data). It would seem that somehow
> this kind of thing is what would have to happen when using a "secure"
> web site. How does this kind of "magic" work?
Hi Sam;
I don't know of a site that will provide the details you are looking for,
and, the following is just my own bumble so don't take it as fact.
Surely the simplest method would require that the recipient involved sends
you the encryption key and then you send the encrypted data.
How this prevents someone eavesdropping on the transaction from decrypting
your data is unclear to me because it seems he/she can end up with all the
necessary information.
Like I said. My bumble.
- Clarence Verge
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