On the reliability of electronic payment systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 294-301

  Anderson, Ross J ^a   Johann Bezuidenhoudt, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Credit control; Cryptography; Fraud; Key management; Metering; Prepayment; Reliability; Revocation, robustness; Robustness; Security

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000421169     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/32.502222     Document Type: Article

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