The use of e-commerce has been associated with a lot of skepticism and apprehension due to some crimes associated with e-commerce and specifically to payment systems. The secure socket layer (SSL) protocol is trusted in this regard to secure transactions for sensitive applications like e-commerce. Unfortunately, the use of SSL protocol causes slow response time on the server which is a major ca...

The issue of the cost containment effects of payment systems on per diem payments by Medicaid to nursing homes is addressed. Estimates of real payment rates as a function of broadly defined payment system classifications and economic and demographic variables using State-level data are presented. Little support for the notion that prospective payment systems substantially restrain payment rates...

This paper empirically examines the impact of socioeconomic determinants upon the adoption of a recent UK e-Government initiative, the „Government Gateway‟. Five socio-economic characteristics that provide insights to Government Gateway adopters and non-adopters, as they were identified from the literature review used in this study. These included age, gender, education, income and occupation. ...

There are numerous opportunities to apply e-commerce technologies to networking. These include the assembly, pricing and payments for complementary infrastructure resources, and the selection of and payment for value-added collaboration and information access services. E-commerce can support the separate provision and coordination of these elements, or allow them to be bundled by a customer-car...

There are numerous opportunities to apply electronic commerce technologies to networking. These include the assembly, pricing, and payments for complementary infrastructure resources, and the selection of and payment for value-added collaboration and information access services. EC can support the separate provision and coordlnation of these elements, or allow them to be bundled by a f'undamcnt...

The recent explosion in the popularity of the Internet has been accompanied by considerable interest in using this worldwide collection of interconnected computers as a medium for commerce. While electronic commerce in general is not itself a novel concept, the dizzying pace of change in the computer networking landscape of late promises to bring with it exciting new ways for individuals and co...

At present, electronic payment activities constructed on the Internet mainly employ the certificate-based public key cryptosystems to solve related security issues. But it is based on the condition that the certificate authority (CA) must be honest and needs to manage the key directory. Furthermore, it needs to spend extra time to verify the signature signed in the digital certificate by the CA...

As it is the case in many countries in the world, electronic commerce (e-commerce) has gained increased acceptance by the population and became part of daily live of people in Turkey. There are still few differences on the consumer experiences between e-commerce and conventional retail settings. These main differences include the way the information is forwarded to the consumers, privacy of the...

Auditability is an important property in nancial systems and architectures Here we de ne the primitive of blind auditable mem bership proof BAMP which combines public auditability with privacy i e user anonymity In particular one can use it as an auditable alter native to a blind signature component in unconditionally anonymous payment systems and in other systems requiring anonymity We show th...