e-coin: http://www.ecoin.net/index.htm this looks fancy and involves the downloading of a wallet for consumer use. However I don't thing the followng extract is as secure as an e-gold transaction. Protection of Merchant How then is the merchant protected from abuse, for example, snooping the URL during the transmission of a purchase, and therefore stealing the goods without paying? The communication between Wallet and Server is encrypted, so the hacking of URL is very difficult. However, a transaction is considered completed when the redirect command is issued. The URL then is known to the customer as well as whoever can sniff the network. One concern that may be raised is that how the merchant can protect herself from having to accept goods requests from everybody who has the access to the purchased URL -- without any feedback about payments ? Yes, once the URL is known, it is public. We count on the merchant to protect themselves from being abused or double-delivering by their CGI programming skill. For example, the merchant can encypt a timestamp or a counter flag into the URL so that the same URL is valid only for a period of time or so many accesses. But then again...a lot of you fellows know more about the technical side than I do. What do you think? Kind regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gold-today.com Sign up with e-gold today and get grams of e-gold here. https://www.e-gold.com/newacct/newaccount.asp?cid=129542 subscribe to the gold-today discussion group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goldtoday --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
