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E-commerce currency
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Types of Money?
Method Anonymous Trail Credit/debit Peer to Peer
Cash
Credit Card
Check/Debit
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Types of Money? (2)
Method Immediate/delay Gross/net Fees: Fixed or fraction
Cash
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Types of Money (3)
Timing: Authentication
contemporaneous, (can I have 2 pieces of
before or after ID, please?”)
transaction Vulnerability to Fraud
Finality and or Loss
Revocability Convenience and Cost
Privacy, Anonymity of Instrument
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Rules That Govern Payment Systems
In the US, state law: the Universal
Commercial Code: negotiable instruments,
checking systems, deposits.
Federal Law regulates banks. Regulation Z
protects consumer interests in credit card
transactions (limiting liability). Regulation
E governs electronic funds transfers.
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How is Commerce on the Internet
Different?
“On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”
Customer & merchant never meet
Large potential for fraud
Internet transactions easily intercepted
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Guiding Principles for Digital
Money
Speedily move authentic,
authorized, integrity-protected,
confidential, non-repudiable
messages over an untrustworthy
medium between counterparties
who need share no prior
relationship.
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Guiding Principles for Digital
Money
Not simple! For example: What does
“authorized” mean?
Wave 4:
Microcommerce
Wave 3:
SmartCards
Wave 2:
Credit Cards
Wave 1:
EDI
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Building Trust
Consumer skepticism [ATM saga]
Bank conservatism another issue
Authentication: merchant and customer
Transaction security
Transaction integrity
Non-repudiability
Consumer protection
Authorization
Confidentiality E-commerce 20
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Parts of the Puzzle
Problem Solution
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Additional parts to the puzzle
Micropayments: Transaction costs:
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Electronic Payment Methods
Offline Systems
Secure Servers
Payment Systems
Commerce Environments
Digital Cash
[smart cards]
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Electronic Payment Methods
SETis the answer, but you have to phrase the
question very carefully…
Sought after characteristics:
- Wide recognition Middleman:
- Preservation of value Can be the phone
- Hard to counterfeit company, ISP,
- Convenient credit card, etc.
- Anonymous? (or maybe not?)
- Legal? (or maybe not?)
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Electronic Payment Methods
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Electronic Payment Methods
Basic Architecture: 3 basic pieces:
- Wallet
- Cash Register
- Gateway
2 Basic forms:
- Conventional payment over new vehicle,
or
- Fundamentally new type
SEIGNORAGE - a “Holy Grail”
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Offline (?) Systems
PO Orders, 800, 900 numbers, etc.
Cellular phone as debit/credit device
First Virtual (credit cards)
Digicash (eCash) Mark Twain Bank
(chapter 11 in 1998) -- hard drive wallet
Cybercash, cybercoin, electronic wallet
Mondex
ISP (ipin) eCharge (phone & AT&T), Qpass
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First Virtual Internet
Payment System
No use of secure protocols
No sensitive information transmitted over
Internet
Reliance on off-line channels
Non-tangible merchandise only
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How First Virtual Worked
(overview)
Customer Merchant
Client Request
Merchant’s
Browser Server
Verification Authorization
Payment
Server
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Advantages/Limitations of FV
Credit card # not transmitted over Internet
Customer can cancel sales in cases of fraud,
unsuitability of merchandise
Customers who abuse system
Can’t be used for tangible goods
Adoption spotty
MOVE TO MESSAGEMEDIA, Only (?)
150,000 accounts
First mover, 1995 E-commerce 31
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Secure Servers
Use SSL or S-HTTP to
– encrypt transmission
– identify merchant to customer
– [identify customer to merchant]
Simple: customer types credit card # into
fill-out form
Merchant
? Bank
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Secure Servers: Limitations
Roll-your-own credit card validation
No built-in transaction processing
No customer authentication (yet)
Crippled cryptography on “export” versions
Credit card #’s not necessarily secure on
merchant’s server
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Online Payment Systems:
CyberCash
Essentially, an encrypted card
Both credit card and debit card models
Secure online payment for tangible goods
Supported by many banks
“CyberCoin” system for small purchases of
intangible items
Discontinued in 1999
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How CyberCash Worked
Merchant
Bank
Bank
$
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What CyberCash Cost
Free to consumer
Software free to merchant
– Transaction fees set by credit card and issuing
bank
– Fee schedules similar to those of a mail order
house: 2-3% of transaction price + fixed fees
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SFNB:
Security First Network Bank
http://www.sfnb.com
Pineville, KY to Atlanta, GA
Complete internet solution
Competitive banking rates, products and
and costs
Used to be a much bigger deal
now usurped by “me-too” regular banks
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Secure Electronic Transaction
Specification (SET)
VISA, Mastercard, Netscape, Microsoft
A standard, not a product
Specifies
– Customer authentication
– Merchant authentication
– Transaction encryption
– Transaction validation
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SET objectives:
Information confidentiality
Data integrity
Authentication (as above)
Interoperability
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SET
Merchant
Bank Bank
$
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Example - Payment Method
MMS/Verifone option “out of the box”
Microsoft
Merchant vPOS
Server vGATE
MERCHANT & COMPANY Payment server
VeriFone SET $
Merchant
Cleartext/SSL
Acquirer/processor
MS Wallet and
client control
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DigiCash
Trueanonymous peer-to-peer currency -
“CyberBucks”
Handful of banks and merchants
Now in chapter 11
Bank Bank
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Digital Cash
Payor Payee
Issue
Cash Check for
Double Spending
Database of
spent “notes”
Bank Digital Currency
Server
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Electronic Checks
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Banks prefer Electronic Checks
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Banks prefer Electronic Checks
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FSTC-Electronic Check Project
CONCEPT
Payer Payee
Accounts
Receivable
Remittance
Remittance
E-Mail or WWW
Signature
Signature Remittance “Card”
Card
Check Check
Signature Signature
Certificate Certificate
Certificate Certificate
E-Mail Deposit
Mail statement Deposit
E-Check line item Signature
check Certificate
Payer’s Bank Certificate
Debit Account ACH or ECP
Payee’s Bank
Clear check Credit Account
Micro-Payments
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Micropayment Applications
To Meter/Audit Access
To applications
For services
By security clearance
To shared resources
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Internet Payment Transaction Ranges
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Proposed Micropayment
Schemes
Advocate Name Basis
Scrip
Content
Customer
Provider
Soft goods
Scrip License
$ Money $ Money
Broker
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Micropayments Issues
Adoption by Internet users?
How can anyone make money on
such small transactions?
What about marginal cost of reproduction?
Will different micropayment systems
ever interoperate?
Risk Management: What about fraud and
control?
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Other govt. / legal / political
issues
Money supply issues?
Money Laundering?
Govt. backdoor, trapdoor, Clipper?
Munitions?
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New generation?
iPIN http://www.ipin.com
(ISP)
eCHARGE
http://www.echarge.com
(phone)
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New generation?
CheckFree
Transpoint
PayMyBills.
com
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New generation?
1ClickCharge
http://www.1clickcharge.com
(thin client,
pre-pay)
Qpass http://www.qpass.com
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New generation?
BEENZ
http://www.beenz.com
:
Websites reward you with beenz for your presence on their site or for a little
interaction.
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Stamps as currency?
E-Stamp http://www.estamp.com
Stamps.com
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New generation, still
Pay-Pal
(x.com)
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URLs (1)
First Virtual
– http://www.fv.com/
CyberCash
– http://www.cybercash.com/
Open Market
– http://www.openmarket.com/
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URLs (2)
SET
– http://www.visa.com/
Microsoft Merchant
– http://www.microsoft.com
Netscape LivePayment
– http:://home.netscape.com/
Millicent
http://www.millicent.digital.com/
DigiCash
– http://www.digicash.com/
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URLs (3)
iPIN http://www.ipin.com
eCHARGE http://www.echarge.com
1ClickCharge
http://www.1clickcharge.com
Qpass http://www.qpass.com
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