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Re: Maybe It's Snake Oil All the Way Down
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Howe)
Wed Jun 4 08:29:12 2003
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From: "Dave Howe" <DaveHowe@gmx.co.uk>
To: "Email List: Cypherpunks" <cypherpunks@lne.com>,
"Email List: Cryptography" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 12:02:23 +0100
Bill Frantz wrote:
> I know of one system that takes credit cards over HTTPS, and then
> sends the credit card number, encrypted with GPG to a backend system
> for processing.
For that matter, our system here discards the CC after use (the pre-auth
step with the merchant bank agent gives us back a "fulfillment handle" that
can only be used to fulfill or cancel that individual transaction - but of
course Amazon *want* to keep your CC details so they can do their
fast-checkout patented thingy.
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