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Digital Cash

Name: Digital Cash
Author: Peter Wayner
ISBN: 9780127387635

by Peter Wayner

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Showing readers how to exchange digital cash via the Net, this book describes a variety of digital cash algorithms, whose approaches get more complex as features are added. Several current commercial digital cash systems--Citibank, Microsoft/Visa, Digicash, Magic Money, and First Virtual--are discussed.

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A comprehensive guide to exchanging money over the Net. The coverage includes algorithms for producing and implementing monetary systems like digital checks, digital coupons, digital cashier's checks, divisible cash and anonymous digital cash, as well as a survey of the different commercial digital cash systems available. Several different systems for creating secure credit card transactions are described in some detail. The included disk contains First Virtual software for conducting transactions over the Net. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)