google crypto?

[Don Davis]

does anyone know anything about AP's claim that Google
"encrypts" credit-card numbers?  specifically, which
cipher and what kind of key management do they use?

				- don davis, boston


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From:  "Google puts new gadgets in browser"
        Friday, June 27, 2003

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/06/27/google.gadgets.ap/index.html


  "The new software out Thursday for the [Google] toolbar
   includes ... a program that automatically fills out
   Internet forms seeking a customer's name and address.

  "The function that fills in forms offers an option to
   store credit card numbers too, but the information
   is encrypted on the hard drive of a user's computer
   instead of Google's computers, for security and
   privacy reasons."









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