A secure and efficient micropayment solution for online gaming

1st International IEEE Consumer Electronic Society's Games Innovation Conference, ICE-GiC 09

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 118-125

  Grzonkowski, Sławomir ^a   Corcoran, Peter M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Authentication; E commenrce; Internet applications; Micropayments; MMORPGs; Security

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SECURITY; HAND HELD DEVICE; INTERNET APPLICATION; MICROPAYMENTS; MMORPGS; MULTIPLAYERS; NEW SERVICES; ON-LINE GAMING; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

AUTHENTICATION; INTERNET;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 74349106774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICEGIC.2009.5293609     Document Type: Conference Paper

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