Secure Electronic Commerce: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Signatures and Encryption - Softcover

Ford, Warwick; Baum, Michael S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134763424 ISBN 13: 9780134763422

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

A guide to Building encryption and authentication technology into an online system used for electronic commerce. Covers both technical and legal issues.

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Review

Have a look at Secure Electronic Commerce: Building the Infrastructure for Digital Signatures and Encryption if you've been charged with setting up a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for an organisation, or if you're just not content to trust commercial products' claims of security. This book gives a clear and complete overview of digital certificate management techniques. This richly detailed and heavily referenced volume generally stays clear of implementation specifics. Readers can count on it to provide the background in concepts and terminology that they'll need to make PKI design decisions.

Without exception, this is a very clearly written book, but there are rather few conceptual diagrams--and a few more graphics might have clarified the relationships among entities. Regardless, it's abundantly evident that the authors did a great deal of research--a rarity in this field. Nearly every other sentence contains a reference to an endnote. Study this book and the material it references, and participate in online forums on PKI issues to truly understand how PKI works. --David Wall

Topics covered: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) design and functionality, including the legal principles behind binding electronic transactions and the details of authentication, encryption, non-repudiation, and key management. Certificates, Certificate Authorities (CAs), and means of managing trust relationships are all covered.

From the Back Cover

"More now than ever, business has a responsibility to understand the trade-offs, costs, benefits and risks involved in choosing any particular type of information security technology. That necessary due diligence begins in Chapter 1 of this book."

―Spence Abraham, United States Senate

Your e-commerce site is only as successful as it is secure Customer confidence is a prerequisite for successful e-commerce, and security is the underpinning of that confidence. To make your e-commerce deployment safe and functional, you need to know not merely the latest security technologies, but also the most current legal strategies. This revised best seller combines the advice of seasoned experts from both the technical and legal fields to help you create a winning business strategy.

Traditional business users will learn how e-commerce transactions differ from paper-based commerce, and how to minimize the risks while maximizing the benefits. Technical users will appreciate the extensive coverage of the latest security technologies and how they are applied in the business environment.

Internet and security topics:

• Digital signatures for secure transactions
• Public-key infrastructure and certification policies
• Firewalls, virtual private networks, Web and e-mail security

Legal and business topics:

• Legal principles and practices to achieve enforceability
• Regulations and guidelines in the U.S. and internationally
• Non-repudiation and the role of trusted third-parties

Newcomers will appreciate the clear explanations of the origins and development of secure e-commerce. More experienced developers can move straight to the detailed technical material. Anyone who is involved in e-commerce design, management, or operation needs Secure Electronic Commerce.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0134763424
• ISBN 13: 9780134763422
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496