Trust and risk in Internet commerce /
L. Jean Camp.
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, �2000.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273) and index.
The Internet -- What Is the Internet? -- What Are Its Origins? -- Where Is the Internet? -- Who Is on the Internet? -- How Does the Internet Work? -- Layers of Protocol and Stages of a Transaction -- Commercial Transactions -- Evaluating Information On-line -- Pricing and Quality in Internet Commerce -- Convergence and the Internet -- Money -- Functions of Money -- Digital Information Money -- Money Vendors -- Basic Cryptography -- Private Key Cryptography -- Public Key Cryptography -- Hash Functions -- Security Goals -- Threats to Electronic Information Systems -- Confidentiality -- Availability -- Scalability -- Authentication -- Integrity -- Nonrepudiation -- Key Management Is Trust Management -- Symmetric Key Management -- Asymmetric Key Management -- Digital Certificates -- Key Length -- Pseudonymity and Anonymity -- Microdata Security -- Privacy Perspectives -- Law Enforcement: Trust Us -- The Business Community: Trust Me -- System Designers: Ignore Me -- Social Critics: Trust for the Common Good -- Europeans: Limit Trust -- Privacy in Law, Privacy in Practice -- State Law -- Federal Law -- Privacy and Information Technology -- Data Reporting: Trusting the Government -- Required Information Reporting -- Reporting Examples -- Reconsidering Requirements -- Cryptography Policy -- Disclosure Summary -- Transactions -- Reliability -- Scalability -- Divisibility -- Interoperability -- Open Systems, Standards, and Protocols -- Examination of Internet Commerce Systems -- Distinctions among Commerce Systems.