[Dataloss] semi-OT: OTP(urchase)

Adrian Sanabria adrian.sanabria at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 23:12:09 EST 2006


If there is such a thing, I can't see it being anything more than just
an idea at this point. For such a system to work, the back-end
transaction processors would have to support it, and I know the
products the larger ones support, and none of them feature a
use-once-and-throw-away number.

On 2/23/06, *Hobbit* <hobbit at avian.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have good pointers to where one could go for more
> info on MBNA ShopSafe, or whatever one-time mechanism AMEX
> is/was offering, or any other currently working schemes to
> generate a unique one-time credit-card-number equivalent per
> transaction?  Or even per vendor, that I've heard somewhere
> is also possible?
>
> I'm at complete ground zero WRT any knowledge of this stuff,
> but it sounds like the folks here might be up on these things.
> Probably best to reply privately and I can summarize later
> if folks want.
>
> tnx
>
> _H*
>
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