> Trust services vendor VeriSign Inc. today unveiled a new online > identity- verification service that allows Web customers to > positively establish their identities with online merchants.
No, no, no! Not "identities" - they establish the complete financial backgrounds of web customers. Where have all the ingenious ideas from the cryptologic research gone? Credentials? Pseudonymous transactions? ... > The new Consumer Authentication Service (CAS) provides online > businesses with instant, round-the-clock information taken from > more than 50 public and private databases to ensure a customer's > identity, ... > [...] > The communication is secured with Secure Sockets Layer encryption > that is already built into standard Web servers and browsers. > "We take extraordinary measures not only to be highly secure ... > but also we take extraordinary care to ensure the privacy of > this information," Chakravarthy said. This is completely irrelevant - "We ensure that we don't give this information to parties that don't pay us." VeriSign misuses cryptologic terminology for business reasons. -- Klaus Pommerening [http://www.uni-mainz.de/~pommeren/] Institut fuer Medizinische Biometrie, Epidemiologie und Informatik Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
