Towards a Secure and Complete Protocol for Electronic Commerce

  • Runzhuo He
  • Kecheng Liu
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Abstract

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) addresses the security problem of e-commerce. It, however, fails to provide interoperability and pre-sale and post-sale services to Consumers. Open Trading Protocol (OTP) can resolve these problems for SET. Provided SET is suitable to integrate with OTP, an ideal solution for e-commerce will be found.

An investigation into the integration of SET and OTP has been undertaken to evaluate the suitability of using SET in OTP for e-commerce. In this paper, the mapping between the OTP business model and SET business model is analysed. A certain number of Payment APIs and OTP/SET Bridges are designed in order to support the integration of SET and OTP. Finally, the suitability of using SET and OTP for e-commerce is evaluated.

Key words

SET OTP OTP/SET Bridge 
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

Authors and Affiliations

  • Runzhuo He
    • 1
  • Kecheng Liu
    • 1
  1. 1.School of ComputingStaffordshire University, OctagonBeaconside, StaffordUK

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