Essentials of E – Commerce Technology (Paperback)

This book is designed to acquaint the readers with major aspects of e-commerce with particular emphasis on technology such as cryptography, e-payment and mobile payment security. The book presents a layered architecture of e-commerce systems with six layers. The physical layer (the bottommost layer) described first, provides the basic communication infrastructure needed by e commerce. The next layer described is the logical layer consisting of Local Area Networks, the Internet, Intranet, etc. which provide connectivity. The layer above is the network services layer which provides e-mail and World Wide Web applications. Above this is a very important messaging layer of e-commerce which provides facilities for exchanging messages securely using the communication infrastructure. Here various methods of encryption, public key infrastructure and digital signature are discussed. It is also explained as to how the messaging layer is used to exchange structured electronic documents, using XML.

• ASIN : ‎ 8120339371
• Publisher : ‎ Prentice Hall India Learning Private Limited; 1st Edition (1 January 2009); PRENTICE HALL INDIA
• Language : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏: ‎ 260 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 9788120339378
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-8120339378