On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:57:52AM -0800, Ed Gerck wrote: > In e-commerce there must be no privacy, the merchant must know who I am, my > credit card must be valid.
The only reason this 'must' be true is because an anonymous and secure payment system is a terror which thankfully our federal governments and central banks protect us from. While Amazon and others obviously like being able to build customer profiles of everyone, I don't doubt that they would be perfectly willing to accept an anonymous payment as long as the money is good (and, of course, that the transaction costs are no more than a credit card and/or the order flow is sufficient that it is worth building support for it). Jack --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]