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Module details
CO639 Electronic Commerce (15 credits)
Syllabus
- The notion of electronic commerce, the driving forces behind it, its limitations, and how it compares with traditional forms of trading;
- Legal aspects of e-commerce including: the Data Protection act, contract law and fraud;
- Relevant web languages and technologies including: XML and derivative languages, client-end and server-end programming, browser support, dynamic serving of web pages, the SSL protocol, and resilient WWW server architectures;
- Cryptographic techniques for secrecy and authentication, including: symmetric and asymmetric ciphers, the DES cipher, the notion of a "hard" problem (such as factorisation), and principles of public key cryptology, the RSA algorithm, digital signatures, digital certificates and networks of trust;
- Electronic payment methods, micropayments, SET, the value transfer protocol and a case study (such as Mondex).
Note
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