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Electronic payment is the economic backbone of all e-commerce transactions. This book covers the major subjects related to e-payment such as, for example, public key infrastructure, smart cards, payment agents, digital cash, SET protocols, and micro-payment. Its first part covers the infrastructure for secure e-payment over the Internet, whereas in the second part a variety of e-payment methods and systems are described.
This edited volume offers a well-written and sound technical overview of the state of the art in e-payment for e-business developers, graduate students, and consultants. It is also ideally suited for classes and training courses in e-commerce or e-payment.
Solid & Easy To ReadReviewed by Otto Yuen, 2005-02-07
I thought this's a very "typical" academic text book with lots of
complex and head-spinning algorithms pointing you to nowhere. And,
I was wrong.
Truly, I'm impressed. This book not only fills with rich contents
on electronic payments and case studies, but also it's well written
in a simple, easy-to-read style. For people like me who wants to
know more about payment technologies in electronic commerce, you
will find this book very helpful. In general, this book is divided
into two parts. The first part covers the fundamental knowledge on
security infrastructure, like basic security, cryptography, digital
signatures, authentication, PKI, as well as smart cards, biometrics
usage in electronic commerce. The second part gets you to the heart
of various e-payment systems, like digital cash, digital checks,
SET, credit card payment, and micropayments, etc. For each
e-payment systems, the book depicts the protocols to help readers
to understand the overall process. It addresses the pros and cons.
It shows some case studies in real life application scenarios such
as Octopus Card in Hong Kong, Visa Cash, and PayPal, etc. For
advanced readers, lots of leads can also be found from the
reference page for further readings. Overall, this is no doubt an
excellent book on electronic payment technologies. Very
solid!
(Reviewed by Otto Yuen, 06-Feb-2005)
