This article explains how Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, or S/MIME, has come to rescue of e-commerce Web sites that need some order information to be contained in encrypted E-mail. Customers don't want to use automatic on-line credit card authorization, so order information instead is sent over an SSL-protected HTML form and credit card numbers are sent via encrypted E-mail for manual processing.
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