Electronic Payment Scheme to Prevent the Treachery

Treachery is one of the restrictions to the development of electronic commerce. To prevent the treachery from the participants in electronic commerce, in this paper a secure electronic payment scheme is proposed and its security is analyzed. This scheme can prevent the treachery only with the aid of an un-trusted third party. It is very simple and it also improves the security and provides the non-repudiation, accountability, fairness and privacy.

Impact of International Networks on Standardization Process in Banking Industry： Example of Secure Electronic Transaction （SET） Initiative

The purpose of this article is to present and interpret the case study of the secure electronic transaction （SET） scheme of Internet security, as an illustration of the necessary construction of interoperability solutions for financial services. The interpretation of case data with actor network theory （ANT） provides an illustration of power coalitions among banks to create a de facto standard for transnational electronic payment security on the Internet. After a step of protecting its political interests and well-known technological solutions, the coalition understands that its mission becomes a matter of life and death for its members： Brand-new currency has been invented on the Web and one could develop business and monetary transactions without the banks. This interpretative stage tells us much about the transnational mechanisms of regulation and standardization as well as the ＂translation＂ steps regarding these transnational organizations. However, an additional step has to be added to this interpretative step, a step of framework construction. The aim is to help managers of the transnational firms involved in regulations and standardization to anticipate the evolutions and make relevant decisions. The framework has three distinctive characteristics： the ability to help conception, the ability to help conceive problems ＂ex ante＂, and the ability to facilitate collective conception of strategic maneuvers.

Comparative Research on Payment Protocols SSL and SET in Electronic Commerce

The security of electronic payment is one discusses the secure mechanism and transaction process of the key problems in electronic commerce. This paper of the two electronic payment protocols SSL and SET, and presents the differences between them on security, function and practicality. SSL takes an active role in current electronic payment. With high security and perfect specifications, however, SET isn＇t widely used at present because of its complexity. But it will change in the future.

A New Watermarking Protocol against Conspiracy

A trusted third party introduced in watermarking protocols would decrease the security and affect the implementation of the protocols. In this paper, a new watermarking protocol with an un-trusted third party （UTTP） was proposed. Based on the idea of all-or-nothing disclosure of secret （ANDOS）, all of the buyer, the seller and the third party didn＇t know the exact watermark, which was embedded in a digital content for tracing piracy. The proposed protocol provided mechanisms to trace piracy and protect customer＇s right. In addition, the problem that a seller colluded with UTTP to frame the buyer, namely, the conspiracy problem, could be avoided.