Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce

Mostafa Hashem Sherif is a principal member of the technical staff at AT&T in Middletown, New Jersey, USA. He received a BSc in electronics and communications and an MSc in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1972 and 1975, respectively, and a PhD in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, in 1980. In 1996, he earned a master of science in management of technology from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. Widely published, Dr. Sherif is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of the steering committee of the Kaleidoscope series of conferences organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He was a member of the steering committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communication from 1995 to 2006, a member of the evaluation committee for the State of New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology from 2000 to 2002, and a participant in activities on innovation and technology management sponsored by the National Science Foundation in 1987, 1989, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002.

• Overview of Electronic Commerce. Money and Payment Systems. Algorithms and Architectures for Security. Business-to-Business Commerce. Transport Layer Security and Secure Sockets Layer. Wireless Transport Layer Security. The SET Protocol. Payments with Magnetic Stripe Cards. Secure Payments with Integrated Circuit Cards. Mobile Payments. Micropayments. PayPal. Digital Money. Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies. Dematerialized Checks. Electronic Commerce in Society. References. Websites.

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