Secure electronic commerce : building the infrastructure for digital signatures and encryption / by Warwick Ford, Michael S. Baum ; with forewords by Jim Sha of Netscape and Hank Vigil of Microsoft.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : The Internet--Business and legal principles--Information security technologies--Internet security.

Title on cover : Comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of technical, legal, and practice issues--Detailed explanation of digital signatures, certificates, and public-key infractructure--In-depth treatment of how to make electronic commerce legally binding and fraud-resistant.