Security Fundamentals for E-Commerce (Artech House Computer Security Series)

432 Pages·2002·1.82 MB·English

by  Vesna Hassler

Security Fundamentals for E-Commerce
For quite a long time, computer security was a rather narrow field of
studythatwaspopulatedmainlybytheoreticalcomputerscientists,electrical
engineers, and applied mathematicians. With the proliferation of open sys-
temsingeneral,andtheInternetandtheWorldWideWeb(WWW)inpar-
ticular, this situation has changed fundamentally. Today, computer and
network practitioners are equally interested in computer security, since they
require technologies and solutions that can be used to secure applications
related to electronic commerce (e-commerce). Against this background, the
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Contents
Preface xix
Whatiscoveredinthisbook xix
Issecurityanobstacletoe-commercedevelopment? xx
WhyIwrotethisbook xxi
Somedisclaimers xxi
Howtoreadthisbook xxi
Acknowledgements xxii
Part1
InformationSecurity 1
1 IntroductiontoSecurity 3
1.1 SecurityThreats 3
1.2 RiskManagement 4
1.3 SecurityServices 5
1.4 SecurityMechanisms 6
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2 SecurityMechanisms 11
2.1 DataIntegrityMechanisms 11
2.1.1 CryptographicHashFunctions 12
2.1.2 MessageAuthenticationCode 14
2.2 EncryptionMechanisms 15
2.2.1 SymmetricMechanisms 15
2.2.2 PublicKeyMechanisms 24
2.3 DigitalSignatureMechanisms 36
2.3.1 RSADigitalSignature 37
2.3.2 DigitalSignatureAlgorithm 38
2.3.3 EllipticCurveAnalogofDSA 40
2.3.4 PublicKeyManagement 41
2.4 AccessControlMechanisms 41
2.4.1 Identity-BasedAccessControl 42
2.4.2 Rule-BasedAccessControl 43
2.5 AuthenticationExchangeMechanisms 43
2.5.1 Zero-KnowledgeProtocols 44
2.5.2 Guillou-Quisquater 44
2.6 TrafficPaddingMechanisms 45
2.7 MessageFreshness 46
2.8 RandomNumbers 47
3 KeyManagementandCertificates 51
3.1 KeyExchangeProtocols 51
3.1.1 Diffie-Hellman 52
3.1.2 EllipticCurveAnalogofDiffie-Hellman 53
Contents ix
3.2 PublicKeyInfrastructure 53
3.2.1 X.509CertificateFormat 54
3.2.2 InternetX.509PublicKeyInfrastructure 59
3.3 EncodingMethods 61
Part2
ElectronicPaymentSecurity 65
4 ElectronicPaymentSystems 67
4.1 ElectronicCommerce 67
4.2 ElectronicPaymentSystems 68
4.2.1 Off-lineVersusOnline 69
4.2.2 DebitVersusCredit 70
4.2.3 MacroVersusMicro 70
4.2.4 PaymentInstruments 70
4.2.5 ElectronicWallet 75
4.2.6 SmartCards 75
4.3 ElectronicPaymentSecurity 76
5 PaymentSecurityServices 79
5.1 PaymentSecurityServices 79
5.1.1 PaymentTransactionSecurity 81
5.1.2 DigitalMoneySecurity 83
5.1.3 ElectronicCheckSecurity 83
5.2 AvailabilityandReliability 84
6 PaymentTransactionSecurity 85
6.1 UserAnonymityandLocationUntraceability 85
6.1.1 ChainofMixes 86