Micropayments, redux
Anne & Lynn Wheeler
lynn at garlic.com
Mon Dec 16 20:11:39 EST 2002
At 12:19 PM 12/16/2002 -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
>If they could get plugged into the ACH/ATM network, it might work
>there as well, so you could also sell it to banks, if they're buying.
something that is plugged into the ach/atm network
1) those "gift" (stored-value magstripe cards at checkout counters ....
operate over the same POS terminal that credit, debit, ach, atm already
work over. basically large percentage of infrastructure already supports
... as part of the basic point-of-sale infrastructure ... credit, debit,
and stored-value.
nacha has already demonstrated (digitally signed) aads debit transactions
working in the network
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/index.html#aads
the issue is generalized routing of x9.59 digitally signed transactions ...
whether they are debit, credit, or stored-value ... and issues like POS
terminals supporting hardware token (7816 contact or 14443 proximity)
interfaces capable of digital signatures.
with that then there would also be generalized support for debit &
stored-value in non-face-to-face, non-POS, and internet type environments
.... aka signed x9.59 transactions whether they are credit, debit or stored
value. credit was relatively straight-forward translation to the internet
since it already had relatively similar risk factors accountable for with
MOTO transactions. digitally signed transactions would reduce some amount
of the risk .... enabling debit & stored-value to also be used in unsecure,
non-face-to-face environments like the internet (also translating existing
debit from shared-secret PIN paradigm to a non-shared-secret public key
paradigm).
slightly related discussion in sci.crypt ng
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#52
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002p.html#50
and part of related matters with threads in internet-payments
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm12.htm#60
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#65
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aepay10.htm#66
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler lynn at garlic.com, http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
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