SEMPER - Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe

This monograph constitutes a major contribution to the development of secure electronic commerce. The book is based on the European R&D project SEMPER - Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe which aims at securing electronic commerce as a whole by developing a technical security framework realized as a middleware. The first part of this monograph presents an introduction to electronic commerce in general and provides an overview of the proposed solutions; this part is accessible to everybody seriously interested in the topic and does not require a technical background except some basic familiarity with the Internet. The second part presents fundamentally new scientific and engineering results and sets the scene for future R&D activities in securing electronic commerce.

The Vision of SEMPER.- I. The Vision of SEMPER.- Secure Electronic Commerce.- Technical Framework.- Legal Framework.- Vision of Future Products.- II. Project Achievements.- Project Achievements.- 5: Organizational Overview.- Architecture.- Experiments.- The Fair Internet Trader.- The Commerce Layer: A Framework for Commercial Transactions.- Fair Exchange: A New Paradigm for Electronic Commerce.- 11: The Payment Framework.- 12: Trust Management in the Certificate Block.- 13: Limiting Liability in Electronic Commerce.- 14: Legal Aspects.- Future Directions in Secure Electronic Commerce.