Bogus digital signatures, Re: OT: utility account transfer frauds

Adrian Midgley midgley at mednetics.org
Sat, 12 Oct 2002 10:49:13 +0000


On Saturday 12 October 2002 09:29, you wrote:

> Yep -- they force the risk of cardholder-not-present transactions onto
> merchants: http://elj.warwick.ac.uk/jilt/00-3/bohm.html

Could we do better?

Is there any merit in systems such as e-Gold where there is a physical=20
resource involved - I don't know how cryptographically respectable their=20
authentication and security systems are.

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