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TweetSET is the Secure Electronic Transaction protocol developed by Visa and MasterCard specifically for enabling secure credit card transactions on the Internet. It uses digital certificates to ensure the identities of all parties involved in a purchase and encrypts credit card information before sending it across the Internet. SET is exempt from the US cryptographic [...]
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TweetNetscape’s Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol is currently the most widely used method for performing secure transactions on the Web and is supported by most Web servers and clients including Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer. The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol provides several features that make it particularly suitable for use in e-commerce transactions. [...]
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TweetWhat have a bomb and a cryptography got in common? Under current US law, cryptography is classified as a munition and the export of software programs that include cryptography is controlled by the Defense Trade Regulations. In general these regulations prohibit the export from the US of software that employs strong encryption, although there are [...]
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Tweet Public-key encryption, or asymmetric encryption involves the use of two keys, one that can be used to encrypt messages (the public key) and one that can be used to either encrypt them or decrypt them (the private key). These key pairs can be used in two different ways, to provide privacy or authentication. Privacy [...]
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TweetWhy is encryption needed for Web commerce? Encryption performs four key functions which enable secure Web transactions to take place: Authentication allows customers to be sure that the merchant they are sending their credit card details to is who they say they are. It can also allow merchant’s to verify that the customer is the [...]
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TweetSecret-key encryption, also known as single-key or symmetric encryption, involves the use of a single key that is shared by both the sender and the receiver of the message. After creating the message, the sender encrypts it with their key and passes it to the recipient who then decrypts it by using a copy of [...]
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TweetMany Web store merchants understandably want to concentrate their energies on what they do best – selling – and either ignore the technical aspects or leave them for someone else to worry about. However, while Web store creation software continues to increase in power and ease of use, there is still a requirement for Web [...]
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TweetIntroduction At first glance, smart cards look like normal credit or debit cards. However, closer examination reveals the absence of a magnetic stripe as smart cards store all their information on a chip buried within the card. Compared to conventional magnetic stripe cards, smart card enabling technologies differ in several important ways: They can store [...]
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