This monograph constitutes a major contribution to the development of secure electronic commerce. The book is based on the European R&D project SEMPER - Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe which aims at securing electronic commerce as a whole by developing a technical security framework realized as a middleware. The first part of this monograph presents an introduction to electronic commerce in general and provides an overview of the proposed solutions; this part is accessible to everybody seriously interested in the topic and does not require a technical background except some basic familiarity with the Internet. The second part presents fundamentally new scientific and engineering results and sets the scene for future R&D activities in securing electronic commerce.
Author(s): Gérard Lacoste, Birgit Pfitzmann, Michael Steiner, Michael Waidner (auth.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1854
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 342
Tags: Data Encryption; Computer Communication Networks; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Business Information Systems
Front Matter....Pages -
Part I. The Vision of SEMPER ....Pages 1-1
Secure Electronic Commerce....Pages 3-14
Technical Framework....Pages 15-21
Legal Framework....Pages 23-29
Vision of Future Products....Pages 31-37
Part II. Project Achievements....Pages 39-39
Chapter 5: Organizational Overview....Pages 41-43
Architecture....Pages 45-63
Experiments....Pages 65-93
The Fair Internet Trader....Pages 95-120
The Commerce Layer: A Framework for Commercial Transactions....Pages 121-153
Fair Exchange: A New Paradigm for Electronic Commerce....Pages 155-184
Chapter 11: The Payment Framework....Pages 185-211
Chapter 12: Trust Management in the Certificate Block....Pages 213-232
Chapter 13: Limiting Liability in Electronic Commerce....Pages 233-255
Chapter 14: Legal Aspects....Pages 257-303
Future Directions in Secure Electronic Commerce....Pages 305-323
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