The giver fills out a form -- and for a fee the company e-mails the recipient a virtual gift certificate.

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Gift certificate to spend a day together doing whatever the recipient chooses.

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You have to modify the sender's public-key certificate, make sure the sender would have a copy of that and modify the recipient's key as well, Jones says.

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