Professor: Dr. Thomas
Trappenberg
tt@cs.dal.ca, (902) 494-3087
Course web site - http://www.cs.dal.ca/~tt/ECMM6903/
Course Timeslot – Monday, February
4 until Friday, February 8. Time TBA
Room - TBA
Course Outline:
A secure payment infrastructure is essential for electronic commerce. In the first part of this module we review cryptographic techniques, security mechanisms, and security infrastructures, which make secure payments possible. In the second half we discuss specific payment systems including electronic versions of traditional payment systems and new forms of payment systems possible in network environments.
Course outline and time-line (in .doc format)
Course format:
During the week in February when we meet in Halifax we will review briefly the material and discuss specific issues in more detail. At the end of this week you should hand in a proposal for a term paper (project) that has to be completed in early March before we meet again in Ottawa to discuss these projects and special issues.
Course slides
(Part 1)
Textbooks:
Required:
· Electronic Payment Systems, by Donal O'Mahony, Michael Peirce, and Hitesh Tewari, Artech House, 2nd edition (August 15, 2001), (ISBN: 1580532683)
Recommended:
· Web Security, Privacy & Commerce, by Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, 2002 O'Reilly and Associates (ISBN: 0-596-00045-6)
·
Computer Money: A Systematic Overview Of Electronic
Payment Systems, Andreas Furche, Graham Wrightson, Published in 1996 by
Morgan Kaufmann (ISBN 3920993543)
Links of interest:
Cert.org
Bank for International Settlements
An inventory of electronic
point-of-sale systems
epaynews.com
Note: It is important for students to be aware of the
Intellectual Honesty regulations at Dalhousie University. Please see http://www.cs.dal.ca/~grad/gradSite/grad.html#Plagiarism
for more information. Any suspected cases of plagiarism will be forwarded to
the Senate Discipline Committee.