Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions
Applying the Secure Electronic Transactions Standard for Online Payments
Published on 10. August 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
XII, 404 pages
978-0-471-28305-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Secure Electronic Transaction standard (SET) secures credit card payments over the Internet. Using cryptographic techniques, SET prevents fraud, by authenticating all parties to payment transactions and prevents theft by keeping payment contents secret. Written primarily for Web developers, this book also provides information essential to both IT and general business managers.
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Content
What's At Stake?; Payment Systems 101; SET's Participants; An Overview of Cryptography; SET's Application of Cryptography; Hardware or Software Cryptography?; SET's Hierarchy of Trust; SET Key Management Principles; Electronic Wallets and Consumer Digital Certificates; Merchant SET POS Software and Merchant Digital Certificates; SET Message Flow Protocols; SET Message Pairs; Planning; Analysis; Designing Your SET System; SET Installation and Configuration; Testing and Certifying Your SET Environment; Operating Your SET Environment; Intranets, Extranets, and SET; Commercial Purchasing and Open Buying on the Internet (OBI); SET for the Future; Web Resources Appendix; Glossary; Index.