EC2: Security for Electronic Commerce

Final Exam
Projects

Course Description:

The objective of this course is to introduce to students the emerging area of electronic commerce and the security challenges and threats in EC, and provide them with an understanding of the state-of-the-art EC security technologies. In particular, this course discusses security requirements for electronic commerce such as identification and authentication, authorization and access control, data integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation, trust, and regulation. It discusses the EC security technologies including internet security, firewalls, cryptography, digital signatures, secure email, public key infrastructure, intellectual property protection and watermarking, Java security, database security, secure electronic payments such as SET (secure electronic transaction), digital cash and digital cheques, and smart card technology, and the related standards and commercial systems.

Text Book: Warwick Ford and Michael S. Baum, Secure Electronic Commerce, Building the infrastructure for digital signatures and encryption , Second Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-203795-5 This book is also available at Amazon.com

Reference Book: Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, Prentice-Hall, 1995. This book is also available at Amazon.com I have placed a copy of this book in the reference section of the Dana Library