Aram Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While the SET protocol was complicated, it's failure had nothing to > do with that fact or the lack of USB on PCs. You could buy libraries > that implemented the protocol and the protocol did not require USB. > IMO, the failure had to do with time-to-market factors. In the late > 90s, when ecommerce was just at it's infancy and you took the risk of > setting up a web store, were you going to wait you could integrate a > SET toolkit into you web site and until your customers had SET > wallets installed on their PCs before selling a product? Or were you > going to sell to anyone who used a web browser that supported SSL? It > was very simple economics, even if you had to pay VeriSign $400 for > your SSL certificate and pay Visa/MasterCard a higher fee.
You are perfectly right on this. I oversimplified and distorted. Still, I suspect that while the time was not right for SET back then, the time may nearly be right for better things now. Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
