Re: SET

["Christian J. Müller" <cmueller@polinet.ch>]

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SET ist the only CC validation system supported by banks and CC
companies. The only alternative is to punch in the numbers manually ...
Chris

mikeh@minivend.com wrote:
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> Quoting Olivier Mueller (minivend@8304.ch):
> >
> > Just a little question from a future minivend user (currently reading
> > the docs... :) : is there a way to use SET with aMinivend system ?
> > Is somebody already doing this ?
> >
> > SET = Secure Electronic Transaction, used by VISA and Mastercard,
> > http://www.setco.org/about.html for more infos...
> >
> 
> SET might get thought for MiniVend 4, but as far as almost everyone in
> the US is concerned, it isn't even on the map. I do realize that it has
> been adopted more in Europe, but even then we don't get many inquiries
> about it. Something like one a year for the past 3 years.
> 
> I spent a bunch of time trying to study SET when it was first proposed
> over 3 years ago, and was quite excited with the prospect of supporting
> something sponsored by Visa and MC. It looked like that was the horse to
> back instead of the ubiquitous "digital cash" solutions which I didn't
> think would go anywhere. This was the first draft, and as I studied it,
> I became convinced it was a bunch of incomprehensible gobbledy-gook with
> no central design coherence. (They later totally re-did it.) I took a
> wait and see attitude, and I am still waiting to see. 8-)
> 
> That being said, SET does appear to be coming to life a bit. Yet until
> I see a lot more activity I am not going to do anything.
> 
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