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As business is moving from face-to-face trading, mail order, and telephone order to electronic commerce over open networks such as the Internet, crucial security issues are being raised. Whereas Electronic Funds Transfer over financial networks is reasonably secure, securing payments over open networks connecting commercial servers and consumer workstations poses challenges of a new dimension. This article reviews the state of the art in payment technologies, and sketches emerging developments.
By: N. Asokan, P. Janson, M. Steiner and M. Waidner
Published in: Computer, volume 30, (no 9), pages 28-35 in 1997
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