On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 18:40:35 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> 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.
Guys.....go to Dr.DobbsJournal at http://www.ddj.com/ of buy their
CDROM....they have had oodles of articles on this "public key
encryption" over the recent years....
gregy
..BUT...don't ask me to explain here....I can understand the articles
but I couldn't do the concept justice....
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