Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe

ACTS Project AC026

[Note: This is a local mirror at http://semper.schunter.org/. The master files should be at http://www.semper.org/.]

Hot links

• The final report of SEMPER appeared in summer 2000 as Volume 1854 in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, Springer-Verlag.
  You can have already now a look at Part I: The Vision of SEMPER !

• Try the Fair Internet Trader Simulator (Version 2.1)

SEMPER is a European R&D project in the area of secure electronic commerce over open networks, especially the Internet. It is executed by an interdisciplinary consortium, combining experts from social sciences, finance, retail, publishing, IT and telecommunications, and has established liaisons with several related efforts.

SEMPER is part of the European Commission's ACTS Programme (Advanced Communications Technologies and Services), executing Task 503. Funding is provided by the partner organisations, the European Union and the Swiss Federal Department for Education and Science.

For more information, see

• Project Synopsis in English (PDF) and in Français (PDF)
• Public Project Reports and Deliverables
• Mailing Lists

• ... or contact us directly!

History

17 July 2000

Revised version of Deliverable D12: Evaluation of Enhanced Trials

12 Mai 2000

Final Report

13 Aug 1999

Deliverable D12: Evaluation of Enhanced Trials

30 Jun 1999

Fair Internet Trader Simulator (Version 2.1)

28 Jun 1999

"Die vielen Milliarden Euro Umsatz im E-commerce werden wohl nicht immer konfliktfrei die Besitzer wechseln"; Gespräch mit Arnd Weber Juni 1999; "zum Thema:" Nr. 30, 28.6.1999 (in German)

11 Mar 1999

Deliverable D10: Advanced Services, Architecture and Design

2 Dec 1998

Secure Electronic MarketPlace for EuRope -- Quick summary and some conclusions; presentation on open issues in secure electronic commerce, given at the IST '98 conference in Vienna

25 Nov 1998

New general presentation on security problems solved by SEMPER

6 Nov 1998

Presentations (in PDF) of the 2nd Public SEMPER Workshop, Rüschlikon, Switzerland, November 4th, 1998.

29 Oct 98

New technical report on open issues in secure electronic commerce.

28 Aug 98

New Status Report on the SEMPER Framework and paper on A Design Pattern for Implementing Robust Protocol Machines in Java.

29 May 98

New publications on risks in implementation of digital signatures and dispute handling in payment systems.

31 Mar 98

Press release: "SEMPER" Security on the Internet: Advanced European E-Business Prototype Goes Online (also in German)

22 Mar 98

Poster on SEMPER

5 Mar 98

Slideshow presented at TEN-Telecom Workshop, Brussels, 4 March 1998

10 Dec 97

Public Deliverable on New Payment Instruments Prototype

24 Sep 97

Slideshow presented at

• 21st Century: The Communications Age, European Parliament, Brussels, June 1997; and
• Ministerial Conference "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential," Bonn, July 1997.

21 Sep 97

Several new reports added:

• Birgit Baum-Waidner: Liability Cover Service for Digital Signatures in Electronic Commerce. Technical Report.
• Gerard Lacoste: SEMPER: A Security Framework for the Global Electronic Marketplace. Overview.
• Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner: Architecture and Design of a Secure Electronic Marketplace. Overview.
• Michael Waidner: Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe; Presentation at "The Open Group -- European Public Forum, Venice, 27 October 1997." Overview.
• Arnd Weber: The Necessity for Secure Implementation of Digital Signatures / Zur Notwendigkeit sicherer Implementation digitaler Signaturen. Technical Report.
• Dale Whinnett: End-User Acceptance of Security Technology for Electronic Commerce. Technical Report.

25 Jul 97

Updated JAVA bindings of SEMPER APIs

19 Dec 96

Public Deliverable on Survey Findings, Trial Requirements, and Legal Framework

18 Dec 96

Slides presented at CommerceNet Global Summit 1996

10 Dec 96

Reports on Optimistic Protocols for Fair Exchange

4 Dec 96

Revised Overview of Payment Manager

3 Dec 96

Public Deliverable on Architecture of Payment Gateway

4 Oct 96

Slides of the SEMPER presentations at PKS'96, Oct. 2nd 1996, Zürich

4 Oct 96

Paper and slides presented at ESORICS 96, Sept. 1996, Rome

3 Oct 96

Public Deliverable on Basic Services: Architecture and Design

16 July 96

Public Mailing Lists

7 May 96

Presentation on SEMPER (1. Deutscher Internet Kongress, Karlsruhe, 7 May 1996) -- Superseded by ESORICS presentation.

1 May 96

Updated report on Electronic Payment Systems

21 Mar 96

Summary of Payment Manager

19 Feb 96

Summary of Objectives and Initial Architecture of SEMPER -- Superseded by ESORICS presentation.

2 Nov 95

Press release: European Commission funds first open solution for secure commerce over the internet (also in German)