With its broad variety of potential uses the Internet is becoming more and more important in many areas of both private and public life. This holds particularly for Electronic Commerce, i.e., electronic transactions between businesses, consumers, and potentially other actors. With the increasing importance of the Internet especially in this domain, third parties may want to illegally obtain as much information as possible about the acting parties through espionage. This article discusses some methods that offer protection against such attacks.
Print ISSN: 1611-2776
Volume: 43, 05/2001
Pages: 246