A STATUS-REPORT ON THE SEMPER FRAMEWORK FOR SECURE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE

The goal of the ACTS Project SEMPER (Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe) is to provide the first open and comprehensive solution for s ecure commerce over the Internet and other public information networks . The basic framework described in an earlier article [M. Schunter, M. Waidner, Architecture and design of a secure electronic marketplace, Joint European Networking Conference (JENC8), Edinburgh, June 1997, pp . 712.1-712.5] has now been implemented in the Java programming langua ge. It includes the payment systems SET, Chipper, and ecash(TM). The p rototype uses a distinguished user-interface for trustworthy user in- and output which enables to use SEMPER on secure hardware. This articl e describes recent refinements to the SEMPER Framework as well as expe riences gained in the field trials of the SEMPER software. (C) 1998 El sevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.