Sunday, May 10, 2009

Exercise 13. Electronic Payments and Security 1

1. I have used many secure website before since 1996. I remember when the earlier versions of IE browsers were always playing catchup with the new encryption keys used by the respective websites. We always need to ensure we had the latest browsers or upgrade. Other than this, everything else is transparent to most users except the obvious of the little PAD LOCK show on the bottom bar or browsers URL . I haven't purchased much recently. I did enrol HKUSPACE courses and also apply a few local instituion for another postgraduate study. They all collect application fee by electronic payment and indeed they all uses SSL with their payment gateway.

Recently, I use this following TALENT PORTAL from Hong Kong Science Park
https://talent.hkstp.org very often to post some vacancies we had
For Fellow students, jobseekers and friends, if you need to find a job, please feel free to use this.

We are seeking for Project Manger !!

2. What is SET ?

Not many institution has implemented SET. I remember at one stage I had printed out the specification of the SET v 1.0 to really read through it. They had a merchant implementation guideline and also a generic help files. SSL is like our plain old telephone. It's encryption method is widely adopted. SSL is secure socket layer which provides END TO END encryption once a session is intiated.

Many websites that uses SSL will have https:// as their URL.

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