[e-gold-list] Re: Rapid spending

2000-11-16 Thread Jay W.

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hi all,
as much as we'd like to encourage developers to utilize
e-gold, in this case e-gold account holders should follow
the passphrase guidelines displayed on the login page:
https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
specifically:

"Only enter your passphrase on the www.e-gold.com web site.
 Do not reveal your passphrase to any other web site or individual."

how do you know you're on the e-gold web site? 
check the location bar in your browser to verify the content begins
with:
https://www.e-gold.com/
check the certificate details if you'd really like to be sure:
netscape: click lock icon at bottom of page border, then choose view
certificate
ie: double click lock icon at bottom of page, the choose details tab

the e-gold certificate serial number is:
3FE4 88F7 342F 20AC E980 A0C3 DEEE 4F85

and is issued by:
"Secure Server Certification Authority RSA Data Security, Inc. US"

also your browser should not present you with any warnings about the
certificate.

if those conditions are not met, *do not* enter your passphrase.

jay w.
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 Hello,
 
For market makers and all those wanting to make spending a
 little faster.  I have put some code together at
 http://www.paybygold.com/auto to help you out.  You can directly
 specify the account number and amount for any number of spends and
 confirm them directly.  If you have any questions on it, please
 email me.  
 
  Khurram Khan

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[e-gold-list] Re: Rapid spending

2000-11-16 Thread Bob

Jay W. wrote:
 
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 hi all,
 as much as we'd like to encourage developers to utilize
 e-gold, in this case e-gold account holders should follow
 the passphrase guidelines displayed on the login page:
 https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html
 specifically:

snip

 also your browser should not present you with any warnings about the
 certificate.

Jay, 

A browser may present a warning (pop up windows) when a Certificate
Authority's root certificate is not bundled with the other root
certificates in the browser. There's nothing particularly trustworthy
about Verisign and others relative to other Certificate Authorities
that can't afford the bundling costs of Microsoft, Netscape, AOL,
Opera and other browsers. Just because a CA can afford the big
bucks to have the certificates bundled in the major browsers doesn't
make them any more trustworthy than those CAs that can't afford the 
bundling costs.

Those businesses that choose a high priced CA have to pass those
higher costs on to their customers in the form of higher prices.

What you might think about is this. A business that you have a
particularly large amount of trust in (why would you be doing
business with them if not) and has choosen a low priced CA,
probably choose that low priced CA because the business has a
particularly large amount of trust in that CA. If you trust the
business then why not trust the low priced CA that the business
choose? You can accept the low priced CA's root certificate using
your browser's pop up windows (the "warning" windows that you
mentioned). It's something to think about. In the future, keep 
your eye on the low priced CAs (in the pop up windows) that some
of your most trustworthy and innovative businesses are choosing.

The days of a couple of large CAs dominating the industry are over. 
Even if the US government starts to require licensing (further 
increasing the cost barriers to entry into the industry, and 
increasing online business expenses even more, thus raising prices
for the consumer). Government licensing of the industry is putting 
the fox in charge of the chicken house. Licensing is just an 
anti-competition measure and another indirect tax.  ... ok, I'm
done now on that point. :)

I completely agree with your first point. I myself would never ever
give my e-gold account password to *any* site other than e-gold's.

Bob

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[e-gold-list] Re: Rapid spending

2000-11-16 Thread Sidd

-Original Message-
 speaking of e-gold server certificates...in the near future we will
be upgrading to a "super certificate" allowing weak/export browser

Hey Jay,

Hope this isn't costing you too much, now that legislation has been
relaxed, anyone can upgrade their browser to 128 bits with a free
patch from the Microsoft website and there has for a long time been a
free patch for Netscape browsers available.

Cheers,

Sidd.



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