Electronic ticketing: Risks in e-commerce applications

Abstract

This article gives an overview of Electronic Ticketing. It includes a discussion on the advantages of Electronic Ticketing and mentions some projects currently in operation. It also contains an introduction to different devices usually used to implement Electronic Ticketing systems. Two particularly interesting Electronic Ticketing applications for railway tickets are presented and the security problems associated with such applications are raised and techniques to secure such applications discussed. © 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.