Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions [Paperback]

Mark S. Merkow (Author), Jim Breithaupt (Author), Ken Wheeler (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471283053 | ISBN-13: 978-0471283058 | Publication Date: July 27, 1998 | Edition: 1

Complete coverage of the emerging standard for securely handling online payments.

This guide explains SET's impact on online commerce and describes how to create SET-compliant solutions. Demonstrating exactly how to implement SET, the book also covers purchase and installation, application development, testing, and more.

SET (Secure Electronic Transaction standard) is an open standard that has been endorsed by most software, hardware, and credit card companies. It will soon be the standard for e-commerce on the Internet.

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Amazon.com Review

The authors of Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions show you why the Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) standard makes secure e-commerce a reality. This wide-ranging text informs Information Systems (IS) managers what SET is, how it works, and how to implement a secure commerce system on their Web sites.

This book first teaches the SET standard, which has been endorsed by such major vendors as Visa and MasterCard as well as IBM, Netscape, and Microsoft. The authors argue that SET will revolutionize e-commerce by providing secure transactions for all.

In order to understand SET on the Internet, the authors explain ordinary credit card transactions in the real world. In subsequent chapters, the authors teach the underpinnings of today's cryptography standards (such as DES and RSA) and how certificates and digital signatures work in terms of the SET protocol.

The book's strength is its wide-ranging perspective on e-commerce and how it fits into traditional business systems. Several chapters provide checklists for the IS manager considering the move toward the Web for commerce. Analyzing and designing, planning for security, and testing are just some of the issues that must be faced when implementing a successful e-business. Clearly, SET is not a magic bullet against fraud, but the authors show why the future of electronic commerce is bright. --Richard Dragan

From the Publisher

Until now, there hasn't been a reliable method for protecting online payments against fraud and theft. MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Microsoft, and others have set out to change that by introducing a new standard called SET that secures credit card payments over the Internet through cryptographic techniques. Now, three experts in SET offer the complete resource on the subject. This guide explains SET's impact on online commerce and describes how to create SET-compliant solutions.

Product Details

• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (July 27, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471283053
• ISBN-13: 978-0471283058
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,980,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars neither here nor there, March 25, 2000

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Tarun Upadhyay (VA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions (Paperback)

This book starts by giving a technical overview of the protocol and just when authors start getting a little deep into the subject they slip onto business details which does not go too deep either. The content is not focussed at all. There are whole chapters on things like "object oriented programming" and "planning a web site" - which are hardly related to SET.

Products detailed in the book are pretty old (e.g RSA has already sold S/PAY to another company in 1998 but book still refer to it as an RSA product)

Overall the book cannot be recommended to people with technical knowledge. only somebody who is in a managerial capacity who has absolutly no knowledge of cryptography or networking and has been pushed into a project requiring SET implementation could find some use for the book.

If you are looking for in-depth focussed understanding of SET, I would recommend reading book 1 and book 2 of original SET implementaion (www.setco.org). They are long but they are the only thing that made me understand SET.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good for a rookie!, December 9, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions (Paperback)

This book described SET stadand clearly. I think someone who want to know more about SET but now not very familliar with it could read this book.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars good for those who want to implement SET, April 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Building SET Applications for Secure Transactions (Paperback)

if u r really interested in implementing set protocol u can go thru this book.