Atomicity in Electronic Commerce,

Abstract

This paper will appear as an invited paper in the May 1996 proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing. There is a tremendous demand for the ability to electronically buy and sell goods over networks. Electronic commerce has inspired a large variety of work. Unfortunately, much of that work ignores traditional transaction processing concerns - chiefly atomicity. This paper discusses the role of atomicity in electronic commerce. It then briefly surveys some major types of electronic commerce pointing out flaws in atomicity. We pay special attention to the atomicity problems of proposals for digital cash. The paper presents two examples of highly atomic electronic commerce systems: NetBill and Cryptographic Postage Indicia.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA314277

Entities

People

  • J. D. Tygar

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymetric Encryption
  • Authentication
  • Commerce
  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Mail
  • Internet
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Postal Service
  • Secure Communications
  • Security Protocols

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Information Retrieval
  • Nanoscale Plasmonic Nanotechnology

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics