Dear Mr. Jackson,

I'm interested in using e-gold as one of the payment
systems for a program I'm developing. It will work on the
basis that participants in the program pay one another,
rather than paying a central company which then pays out
commissions.

This will require that their account #s be revealed in order
to receive payments. This means that it will be very easy
for hackers to get hold of theaccount #s.

A hacker (who knew the # of  one of my e-gold a/cs) planted
a Trojan Horse in my computer that reported my password
enabling him/her to raid my account. (He didn't know the a/c
#s of any of my other e-gold a/cs, so he/she didn't touch them.)

The whole point is that by revealing your account #, you make
it much easier for hackers to discover your password and
raid your account.

I urge you, as a high priority, to enhance e-gold by adding a
Payment #, associated with each account. Then, in order to
get paid, you reveal the Payment #. You never reveal your a/c
# to anyone. (When someone pays you, he/she sees the a/c
name and the Payment #, but never the a/c #.)

This would make it considerably more difficult for hackers to
raid your account.

Frederick Mann 


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