Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > we were asked to work with this small client/server startup in menlo > park that wanted to do payment transactions on their server ... and > they had this stuff called SSL > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn2 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/aadsm5.htm#asrn3 > > in the year we worked with them ... the moved and changed their name. > trivia question ... who had owned the rights to their new name? > > as part of the effort on doing the thing called a payment gateway and > allowing servers to do payment transactions ... we also had to perform > business due dilligence on most of these operations that produced > these things called SSL domain name certificates. At the time we > coined the term "certificate manufacturing" ... to differentiate what > most of them were doing from this thing called PKI (aka that don't > actually really have any operational business process for doing much > more than pushing the certificates out the door).
for some topic drift ... the new buzzword is SOA (service oriented architecture) ... i've recently commented that the payment gateway might be considered the original SOA application. misc. refs: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#42 Development as Configuration http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#43 Development as Configuration http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#44 SqlServerCE and SOA - an architecture question http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#48 defeating firewalls made easy http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005k.html#2 Ancient history -- Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/ _______________________________________________ mozilla-crypto mailing list [email protected] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-crypto
