From: “Joseph M. Reagle Jr.” <reagle@rpcp.mit.edu>
To: brett@nmis.nmis.org (Brett Leida)
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From: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@rpcp.mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 04:18:34 +0800
To: brett@nmis.nmis.org (Brett Leida)
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At 03:41 PM 1/16/96, you wrote:
>I thought you might find this interesting...
Thanks, that is very cool beyond just ecommerce, because what does
it mean for personal encryption? If I buy one of these doo-hickeys for
$100, and so do you, does that mean we don't have to buy an AT&T 3600
(secure phone) to talk securely, and also not have to worry about Clipper
crap? Or (as it probably is) does that mean we _have_ to talk through this
company and it only sends tiny bits of info from the card reader... (it'd be
cool if you could modify it...)
Interesting.
>
>found at:http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9601/encryption/index.html
>New security device may broaden business on the web
>
>January 16, 1996
>Web posted at: 9:30 p.m EST (1430 GMT)
>
>>From Correspondent Marsha Walton
>
>ATLANTA (CNN) -- For cyberspace marketers, The World Wide Web is a potential
>world wide mall, an electronic marketplace for consumer goods and services.
>
> But for now, most visitors are window-shopping, not buying. A new survey by
>the University of Michigan shows consumers are wary of purchasing goods
>online for fear their credit card numbers will be misappropriated.
>
> People who think nothing of giving their credit card number to an anonymous
>voice over the phone or handing their card to a waitress at a restaurant,
>flinch at the thought of putting that number into a computer.
>
> But a New Jersey, ISED Corp., has created a device that
>secures transactions, both on the Internet and over the telephone. It's
>called SED, or secure encryption
>device. It costs about a hundred dollars, attaches to a
>phone or a PC and operates with the swipe of either a credit or ATM card.
>
> "What the device will really allow is consumers a new form
>of payment from home using their ATM card. They'll be able to purchase goods
>and services or whatever on the internet, " said Roger Payne, an engineer
>for BT Labs which is testing the product.
>
> Potentially vulnerable personal account information is
>scrambled or encrypted on the magnetic stripe on the card. It is
>electronically transferred through the hardware. That eliminates the need
>to say or "key in" the account number or expiration date.
>
> "So that if somebody who is not supposed to be looking at it, they can't
>understand what's in there," said Grant Helmendach whose company BUYPASS
>processes three quarters of a billion financial transactions a year.
>
> BUYPASS is marketing SED to "mom and pop" retailers which charge goods by
>making an imprint of credit cards, relying on paper transactions that are
>costlier, and less secure.
>
> "Lots of folks want to focus on the Walmarts of the world. not a lot of
>people have focused on the smaller specialty shops, specialty retailers, and
>what folks at SED have done, is built a terminal that's very inexpensive,
>so they can play in this game. They have financial incentive to do that,"
>said Helmendach.
>
> As buying by computer catches on, the device could eventually be used to pay
>for everything from a pizza delivery to bailing a friend out of jail, and
>would be as much a part of the home computer as a floppy disk or a hard drive.
>
> And just as consumers have grown accustomed to computers and ATM cards, the
>combination of the two could be another step toward a "cashless" society.
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