Showing readers how to exchange digital cash via the Net, this book describes a variety of digital cash algorithms, whose approaches get more complex as features are added. Several current commercial digital cash systems--Citibank, Microsoft/Visa, Digicash, Magic Money, and First Virtual--are discussed.
Peter Wayner is a writer living in Baltimore and is the author of
Digital Cash and
Agents at Large (both Academic Press). His writings appear in numerous academic journals as well as the pages of more popular forums such as
MacWorld and the
New York Times. He has taught various computer science courses at Cornell University and Georgetown University.