Electronic Payment Systems for E-Commerce | 
 enlarge | Authors: Donal O'mahony, Michael A. Peirce, Hitesh Tewari, O'mahony Donal
Publisher: Artech House Publishers
Category: Book
List Price: $107.00
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 829074
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 356
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.9 x 1.2
ISBN: 1580532683
Dewey Decimal Number: 332.0285
EAN: 9781580532686
ASIN: 1580532683
Publication Date: August 15, 2001
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Product Description
As the Internet continues to transform commerce as we know it, the method of payment is one component that's critical to successfully conducting business across a network. Electronic Payment Systems offers the first comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the major electronic payment systems currently available. Requiring only a basic familiarity with computing and networking, the book covers numerous Internet payment systems including E-cash, SET (secure electronic transactions), FSTC electronic check project, and Millicent. It identifies the properties unique to the various systems, provides a working knowledge of the necessary cryptography, and explains the protocols involved. In eight concisely written chapters, it provides all the background needed to understand how each payment system works and to select the system and financial software best suited to a specific company's needs.
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 Not up-to-date! July 7, 2004
Marcela C. Musgrove (Chapel Hill, NC)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book is from 2001 so it is definitely not up-to-date. In one table, it compares 25 different companies that offer payment options on the web but only 4 or so are even around. So I'd be wary about paying $88 for information that may not be too trustworthy. Seems geared more towards academics than professionals.
 An excellent book, but... November 15, 2003
Kris Shankar
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you want a great overview of electronic payments, the various schemes in operation and how they work, this is the book for you. I downloaded the eBook version of this book to do some research on electronic payments and it proved invaluable. I have read only the following sections in detail: overview, security techniques and micropayments, but I would say the book is worth the price just for the lucidity, structured presentation and breadth of coverage of these chapters. The chapters on credit cards and other forms of ePayments look just as well written based on my cursory look at them. The language is precise and non-obfuscatory, readable by managers and technical folks alike, while providing a depth of detail adequate to design your own systems based on these principles, unlike your typical technical book! However, the eBook version has certain extremely annoying featires which compel me to give this book only 3 stars as opposed to the 5 stars it deserves: you can't print even a single page, you can download it only to 3 computers (which is a pain if you have a PC and a laptop at home, and a work PC, and if you then want to refer to it when on a business trip or vacation from another PC), and you can't copy and paste even a word from this document. Draconian copyright measures, if you consider that you can do all these things with a paper version of the book. This is exactly the kind of arrogance on the part of eBook publishers that's going to kill the industry, because I will never buy an eBook again unless I have no choice. If you aren't in a tearing hurry, I'd say get the paper version.
Academics understand technology, not the business November 16, 2001
M. McCormack (San Jose CA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I believe this book is a good technical study in the bits and bytes of how payment systems work, yet lacks the real-world applications, value propositions, and financial information on why some payment systems work, and many others are complete failures in the real world. Technology is only one segment of the payment arena.
 excellent book July 1, 2000
solgi (IRAN)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
this book has gathered information about payment system as good as possible.I hope every one that like E_banking technology see this book!
To the point October 2, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For those who are seeking the alternative topologies in Electronic Payment systems this book is a very good starting point with some very good references as well. Gives a good insight on the mechanisms as well. One downside is that too much emphasis is put on maths for security related subject compared to the general aim and tone of the book.
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