Re: UKNM: SET - ease of use

[Andres Varela]

Steve Johnston replied


>>after our signing deals with various SET companies (because frankly we have

>>to)................................

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>Have to? Why?


Credibility more than anything.  We are engaged in a huge international

ecommerce project, which in most peoples minds centres not on helping the

Red Cross but on gambling.  We have to take every precaution so as to

convince punters/benefactors that everything's kosher and that their

transactions are as safe as possible.  Bit of a sod sometimes, really.


(not a cue to restart the safer-than-leaving-credit-card-slips-in-a-restaurant discussion)


But returning to my original reason for posting:


Does anyone know of a card issuer (or even a consumer) actively using SET?

When we phoned MBNA to find out about getting hold of SET software as

consumers, we were told that they don't bother with SET as they're not

convinced it's secure and want nothing to do with it (once we'd explained at

length what it was we were asking for and the chap had had time to ask his

boss about it).


Not the view I'd expect from a company issuing VISA cards...but perhaps I'm

being naive.


Answers here or on a ('far more secure') postcard...


--A/



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