Is there already a solution for commerce in the internet???

[Ismet Mazlumoglu]

On Tue, 6 Feb 1996, Roberto Nascimento wrote:

> Why is not secure to type the credit card number even in a Netscape =
> browser? If it is encrypted why is not secure? That little key on the =

I believe that nothing is secure in computers. If you subscribe to a 
mailing list about security or read some books about networks you'll see 
that there's no solution in fact.

> it safe or not. The question is: if it's already known that is not safe, =
> why do they write this? Or if it is safe, why all this thing about =
> DigiCash, FV and others? Is there already a solution or not?

Because everything is a software that some fellow had written it, this 
means another can write something to crash it (mostly successful!). Think 
that you computer encrypted your data and sent it to shop's computer. 
Then shop's computer has to unencrypt it. It is resolvable by another 
host. If someone solves the encryption method, he can get all the secret 
data. 
The only solution: don't panic and let everything go whatever like it is.

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