Patent ID: 7043025

Claim:
A method for conducting private secure electronic commerce comprising the steps of: providing a first server that is an application service provider suited to provide gambling services; providing to an anonymous first user, in exchange for a payment, a first sequence of encryption key material, an identifier associated with said first sequence, connection instructions for connecting to said first server, and encryption instructions for encrypting and decrypting data using the first sequence; providing to the first server said identifier and a second sequence of encryption key material suitable for decrypting data that is encrypted with the first sequence and for encrypting data that can be decrypted with the first sequence; establishing a first user account accessible to the first server, wherein said first user account includes the identifier and a first user value parameter that is proportional to said payment; providing encrypted data communications in the form of gambling between said first user and the first server; adjusting said first user value parameter in response to said first user winning or losing at said gambling; and investing gambling loses by said first user in an investment payable to the first user at a predetermined future date.