SET vs. SSL

• Will SET replace SSL ? NO, there are virtually no technical similarities between SET and SSL, except that both use RSA public key cryptography
• Is SET dead ? NO, it is just much more complex, advanced
• Is SSL good enough for e-commerce ? NO, but it is being used
• Does merchant know who the client is ? NO, credit card-over-SSL authenticate the identity of the server to the browser, but not vice versa; it can be done in SSL but clients have no certificates.

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