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Visiting Fellow, Department of Computer Science, Australian National University
Version of 25 September 2002
Address as part of the ECom-ICom Experts Address Series (2002-2003), The University of Hong Kong, 27 September 2002
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This document is at http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/EC/AuthHKU020927.html
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Finger print or retina biometrics? Digital signatures? Smart Cards? Since the commercialization of the Internet, it has been conventional to presume that e-commerce is dependent upon the parties to transactions being identified, and their identities authenticated, especially the identities of consumers and citizens.
This address will start off with a short account on the current practices internationally and presumably in Hong Kong on how clients are authenticated in on-line transactions, examine the concepts of identification and authentication, and conclude that many of the conventional presumptions are misguided.
Professor Roger Clarke, an international business consultant and the Visiting Professor on the renowned MSc Programme on Electronic Commerce and Internet Computing at The University of Hong Kong, presents a model, definitions and several new terms, and argues for the need to lay a more appropriate foundation for real progress in the e-business arena.
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