Recently, two major bankcard payment instrument operators VISA and MasterCard published speci cations for securing bankcard payment transactions on open networks for open scrutiny...
When new technologies for production and dissemination of information emerge and are adopted, we see a dramatic increase in the quantity of information that is made available for ...
Banks and other organisations deal with fraudulent phishing websites by pressing hosting service providers to remove the sites from the Internet. Until they are removed, the fraud...
Every novel cooperative arrangement of mutually suspicious parties interacting electronically -- every smart contract -- effectively requires a new cryptographic protocol. However,...
Existing software proposals for electronic payments can be divided into "on-line" schemes that require participation of a trusted party (the bank) in every transaction an...