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Re: SET




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Robert Hettinga writes:
 > 
 > Personally, I'm becoming convinced that SET is practically Ptolmaic in it's
 > complexity. You can get money from point A to point B, but you have to go
 > through a lot of epicycles to get there.

Agreed, SET is overengineered hogwash.

 > 
 > Unfortunately, I think that no MIS manager will get fired for using SET, and
 > it'll take a serious demonstration of a security breach before people will
 > listen to anything else. At least until someone demonstrates a transaction
 > protocol which is, say 3 orders of magnitude cheaper...

Perhaps... OTOH, SET is SO bad that it will be impossible to deploy,
probably forcing everyone away from it anyway.

As far as a better protocol, it's already designed, implemented, and
running quite nicely in our software. :-)

Regards,
Jeremey.
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Jeremey Barrett                                BlueMoney Software Corp.
Crypto, Ecash, Commerce Systems               http://www.bluemoney.com/
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