Design, implementation, and deployment of the iKP secure electronic payment system

  • Authors:
  • M. Bellare;J. A. Garay;R. Hauser;A. Herzberg;H. Krawczyk;M. Steiner;G. Tsudik;E. Van Herreweghen;M. Waidner

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA;-;-;-;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper discusses the design, implementation, and deployment of a secure and practical payment system for electronic commerce on the Internet. The system is based on the iKP family of protocols-(i=1,2,3)-developed at IBM Research. The protocols implement credit card-based transactions between buyers and merchants while the existing financial network is used for payment clearing and authorization. The protocols are extensible and can be readily applied to other account-based payment models, such as debit cards. They are based on careful and minimal use of public-key cryptography, and can be implemented in either software or hardware. Individual protocols differ in both complexity and degree of security. In addition to being both a precursor and a direct ancestor of the well-known SET standard, iKP-based payment systems have been in continuous operation on the Internet since mid-1996. This longevity-as well as the security and relative simplicity of the underlying mechanisms-makes the iKP experience unique. For this reason, this paper also reports on, and addresses, a number of practical issues arising in the course of implementation and real-world deployment of a secure payment system