Rich Salz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I think that by eliminating the need for a merchant to learn >> information about your identity I have aimed higher. Given that we're >> talking about credit instruments, > > Wasn't that a goal of SET?
Some of it was, yah. I don't claim that any of this is original. The problem with SET was that the protocol was far too complicated to implement (hell, the spec was nearly too heavy to lift), and it was proposed well before people even had USB connectors on their computers, let alone cheap USB card interfaces. I think people threw out the baby with the bathwater, though. The general idea was correct. Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]