The 11th International Conference On Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2009)

August 12-15, 2009, TAIPEI, TAIWAN

Published in The ACM Digital Library

Flash Payment: payment using flash disks

Morteza Sargolzaei Javan

Amirkabir University of Technology ,Tehran Polytechnic,  Iran, www.msjavan.tk

Mehdi Shajari

Amirkabir University of Technology ,Tehran Polytechnic,  Iran

Abstract:

This article proposes a flexible payment system that is useful for buying information items over Internet. A flash disk is used as a cheap smartcard with a secure password to pay for information goods and downloads. In the proposed system, The flash device owner is able to get download links from any geographical location and download the files he has already paid for, as long as the file has not been expired. A low implementation cost and fairly strong security enhancements make this model useful for micropayment and also other special purposes. In addition, with the proposed model, the merchants could manage subscription activities easily without any imposed costs by merchants or customers.

Categories and Subject Descriptors
K.4.4 [Electronic Commerce]: Payment schemes.

General Terms
Algorithms, Design, Security

Keywords:
Flash Payment, Flash Disk, Payment, Micro Payment