From: wlkngowl@unix.asb.com (Mutatis Mutantdis)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 19:33:52 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: FV Demonstrates Fatal Flaw in Software Encryption of Credit Cards
Message-ID: <199601301105.GAA10893@UNiX.asb.com>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 1996 15:07:46 -0500 (EST), Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:

>[My apologies in advance if you see several copies of this message.  I
>am posting this fairly widely due to the severity and importance of the
>problem described.]

>As you may already have heard via the popular press, First Virtual
>Holdings has developed and demonstrated a program which completely
>undermines the security of every known credit-card encryption mechanism
>for Internet commerce.  This is a very serious matter, and we want to
>make sure that the Internet community is properly informed about the
[..]

All that over keyboard grabbers???

*yawn* This is nothing new at all.