On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:46 AM, James A. Donald<jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
In order to shop, one needs a third party mediating transactions
*THEY* should issue certificates. �The Visa certificate should signify "This
merchant is trusted by Visa to accept Visa."
And further, you should have a client app on your computer for dealing with
shared secrets, which is only capable of attempting a visa payment with an
entity trusted by Visa.
On 2011-09-23 7:06 PM, Ben Laurie wrote:
Wasn't that what SET did?
Set was a payments system, not a general purpose communications system
that happened to be capable of transmitting payments and signing contracts.
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