Public Project Reports

Final Report

SEMPER Consortium / IBM & Uni Saarbrücken (ed.):

SEMPER: Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe;
SEMPER Deliverable D13; Zürich, Mai 2000.
Volume 1854 in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg. ISBN 3-540-67825-5.
Online (Part I: The Vision of SEMPER ): Postscript, GZIP, 262K + Postscript, 1777K + PDF, 793K

Conference and Journal Publications

Jose L. Abad-Peiro, N. Asokan, Michael Steiner, Michael Waidner:

Designing a Generic Payment Service;
212ZR055, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, 29 November 1996;
final versin: IBM Syst. Journal, Vol 37, No. 1, January 1998.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 97K + Postscript, 400K
Comment: For historical reasons, we also make available a previous version from March 1996: Postscript, 333K, Postscript, GZIP, 89K.

N. Asokan, Phil Janson, Michael Steiner, Michael Waidner:

Electronic Payment Systems;
211ZR019, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, April 1997;
final version: IEEE COMPUTER, September 1997.
Online (report): Postscript, GZIP, 103K + Postscript, 482K
Online (journal): PDF
Comment: Summary of electronic payment systems for the Internet; see also the previous version of above paper which contains a description of iKP.

N. Asokan, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner:

Optimistic Protocols for Fair Exchange;
4th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Zurich, April 1997, 7-17.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 112K + Postscript, 511K (Septemper/December 1996)
Comment: See also the multi-party version.

N. Asokan, Michael Steiner, Els Van Herreweghen:

Towards a Framework for Handling Disputes in Payment Systems;
3rd USENIX Workshop on Electronic Commerce Bosten, September 1998, 1-3.
Comment: An earlier verion of that paper is available as IBM Research Report, RZ 2996

Gerard Lacoste:

SEMPER: A Security Framework for the Global Electronic Marketplace;
IIR London, September 1997.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 71K + Postscript, 236K + PDF, 64K
Slides: Postscript, GZIP, 24K + Postscript, 93K + PDF, 62K

Gerard Lacoste:

Electronic Commerce in Europe: the SEMPER experience;
ICEC'98, Seoul, April 8, 1998.

Gerard Lacoste, Michael Steiner:

SEMPER: A Security Framework for the Global Electronic Marketplace;
comtec - the magazine for telecommunications technology, Issue 4, April 1999.

Birgit Pfitzmann, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner:

Optimal Efficiency of Optimistic Contract Signing;
434SR011, University of Saarbrücken, 20 April 1998;
A shortened version appeared in the Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC), Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, July, 1998.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 230K , + PDF, 222K

Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner:

Architecture and Design of a Secure Electronic Marketplace;
8th Joint European Networking Conference (JENC8), Edinburgh, June 1997, 712.1-712.5.
Online: PDF, 125K

Michael Waidner:

Development of a Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe;
ESORICS '96 (4th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security), Rome, LNCS 1146, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1996, 1-14;
final version: EDI Forum 9/2 (1996) 98-106.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 66K + Postscript, 246K + PDF, 82K
Slides: Postscript, GZIP, 483K + Postscript, 1340K look here for a more up-to-date overview on SEMPER
Comment: Summary of SEMPER's objectives and initial architecture.

Arnd Weber:

See What You Sign. Distribution of Risks in Implementations of Digital Signatures;
IS&N'98, Antwerp, May 25-28, LNCS 1430, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1998, p. 509-520 
Slides: Postscript, GZIP, 102k + Postscript, 725k

Dale Whinnett:

End-User Acceptance of Security Technology for Electronic Commerce;
IS&N '97, Cernobbio (Italy), Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1997.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 67k + PDF, 49k

Public Project Deliverables

SEMPER Consortium / Cryptomathic (ed.):

Basic Services: Architecture and Design;
SEMPER Deliverable D03; La Gaude, 1996.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 342K + Postscript, 1.4M +
Appendix B: Documentation of the API
Comment: An updated API Documentation can be found here (07/23/97).

SEMPER Consortium / Otto-Versand (ed.):

Survey Findings, Trial Requirements, and Legal Franework -- Results from First Year of Project SEMPER;
SEMPER Deliverable D05; La Gaude, December 1996.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 598K + Postscript, 5166K

SEMPER Consortium / IBM Zurich (ed.):

Advanced Services, Architecture and Design;
SEMPER Deliverable D10; La Gaude, March 1999.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 3.5MB + PDF, 1.7MB +
Appendix D: Documentation of the API

SEMPER Consortium / Uni Freiburg (ed.):

Evaluation of the Enhanced Trial;
SEMPER Deliverable D12; La Gaude, June, 2000.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 330KB + PostScript, 2.7MB

SEMPER Consortium / r3 security engineering (ed.):

Architecture of Payment Gateway;
SEMPER Deliverable D14; La Gaude, November 1996.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 128K + Postscript, 815K

SEMPER Consortium / r3 security engineering (ed.):

New Payment Instruments Prototype;
SEMPER Deliverable D15; La Gaude, December 1997.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 180K + Postscript, 1'300K + javadoc +

Public Reports

N. Asokan, Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner:

Optimistic Protocols for Multi-Party Fair Exchange;
232ZR021, IBM Zurich Research Lab, December 1996.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 94K + Postscript, 389K (Septemper/December 1996)
Comment: See also the two-party version.

Birgit Baum-Waidner:

Liability Cover Service for Digital Signatures in Electronic Commerce;
111R3041, r3 security engineering, Aathal, August 1997.

L. Fritsch, M. Schunter

A Design Pattern for Implementing Robust Protocol Machines in Java;
433UD022, University of Saarbruecken, August 1998.
Online: PDF, 77k

Gerard Lacoste:

SEMPER: Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe -- A Research Project on the Secure Electronic Marketplace sponsored by the European Commission;
Slide show, presented at: 21st Century: The Communications Age, European Parliament, Brussels, June 1997; and: Ministerial Conference "Global Information Networks: Realising the Potential," Bonn, July 1997.
Slides: PDF, 184K

Gerard Lacoste, Michael Waidner:

SEMPER: Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe -- Project Overview;
Slide show, presented at: TEN-Telecom Workshop, Brussels, March 4th, 1998.
Slides: PDF, 429K

Matthias Schunter, Michael Waidner D. Whinnett:

A Status Report on the SEMPER Framework for Electronic Commerce;
Terena Networking Conference 1998; final version to be published in Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 1998.
Online: GZIP PS, 675K

SEMPER Consortium:

Presentations given at "SEMPER Day," PKS'96;
Zurich, 2 Oct 1996.

SEMPER Consortium:

Public Version of Technical Annex;
431ZR031; IBM La Gaude, March 1995, July 1995.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 146K + Postscript, 607K
Comment: Project plan, as submitted to the European Commission, except the financial details.

SEMPER Consortium:

Presentations given at "2nd SEMPER Day;"
Zurich, 4 Nov 1998.

Michael Waidner:

Open Issues in Secure Electronic Commerce;
IBM Research Report RZ 3070 (#93116), IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Lab, October 1998.
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 130K + Postscript, 598K (October 1998)

Michael Waidner:

Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe;
Conference on Trends and Research in Electronic Commerce, IBM Research Lab, Rüschlikon, November 2-3, 1998; and OCG Arbeitskreis Electronic Commerce, Vienna, November 20, 1998
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 566K + PDF, 456K

Michael Waidner:

Secure Electronic MarketPlace for EuRope -- Quick summary and some conclusions;
IST '98 -- Information Society Technologies Conference, Vienna, December 2, 1998
Online: Postscript, GZIP, 247K + PDF, 176K

Arnd Weber:

Distribution of Risks in Implementations of Digital Signatures / Zur Notwendigkeit sicherer Implementation digitaler Signaturen;
111FR023/111FR031, Univ. Freiburg i. Brsg., October 1997.
[to be published in: G. Müller, A. Pfitzmann (eds.): Mehrseitige Sicherheit in der Kommunikationstechnik. Vertrauen in Technik durch Technik. Bonn 1997]
Online: PS, GZIP, 106K

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