Basically leading up to this discussion was the use of SSL on the internet .... and was its predominant use for securing credit card transactions. Some of the early history (as referenced background threads leading up to this one) was SSL for the complete shopping experience (and somewhat got cut back to just credit card because there was about a factor of five difference between number of SSL sessions and the number of non-SSL sessions that could be supported by the same webserver hardware).
Subject of X9.59 in crypto mailing list: http://www.garlic.com/aadsm15.htm#6 X9.59 background posts leading up http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#0 invoicing with PKI http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#2 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#3 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#4 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm15.htm#5 Is cryptography where security took the wrong branch? -- Internet trivia, 20th anv: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/rfcietff.htm
