A method of authenticating and charging a client using a web infoshop service system comprising the steps of: transmitting protocol address information from the service system to the client when the client accesses the service system and selects a protocol access; when a user request to the service system is for a charged content provider, adding an authentication value to the user request, transmitting the user request including the authentication value from the service system to the charged content provider, and transmitting information corresponding to the user request from the content provider to the client; and when the client cancels the protocol access and notifies cancellation information to the service system, transmitting charging information using the service system.

Method of authenticating and charging a client using a web infoshop service system

An enterprise network opens a virtual private network tunnel with a data center by sending the data center a data request that includes a uniform resource identifier. The data center responds by sending the enterprise network ongoing reply data. A user wishing to access network data of the enterprise network transmits an access request to the data center. The data center authenticates the identity of the user and transmits the access request to the enterprise network. The enterprise network responds to the access request by performing acts upon the network data and/or by returning network data to the data center such that the user is enabled access to the network data. In an alternative embodiment, the data center caches a copy of network data to be retrieved by a remote user when the same network data is disconnected from the enterprise network.

Spontaneous virtual private network between portable device and enterprise network

Anonymous communication on the Internet offers new opportunities but has ill-understood risks. This article helps to ground the policy debates by examining some fundamental aspects of anonymous social behavior and current controversies over anonymous communications. It is a companion to the article in this issue, "Anonymous Communication Policies for the Internet: Results and Recommendations of the AAAS Conference." It examines the social character of anonymous communication and the ways that anonymous communication has played important roles for professionals such as journalists and the police. It also explains some of the new technological supports for anonymous communication on the Internet. The openness, decentralization, and transnational character of the Internet challenge the efficacy of traditional control mechanisms and have raised issues related to accountability, law enforcement, security and privacy, governmental empowerment, and e-commerce. Yet, to ban or restrict all anonymous communication ...

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Assessing Anonymous Communication on the Internet: Policy Deliberations

A secure connection between a computer network and a remote device is provided by a carrier network between the computer network and the remote device. The secure connection includes data tunnels that operate as virtual private networks between the corporate network and the carrier network and between the remote device and the carrier network. In addition, communication protocols can be used to enable data requests and data transmission over the secure connection, optionally through ports on the computer network that are opened for Web traffic.

Virtual private network between computing network and remote device

This paper describes the need for faster and more efficient technology transfer mechanisms. It outlines the design of a computerized technology transfer mechanism for the engineering sciences area based on Sandia National Laboratories' Technology Information Environment for Industry (TIE-IN). It explains the security, privacy and appropriate access issues that arose in the design of the system. >

Technology transfer in Sandia's scientific areas. The engineering sciences Technology Information Environment. Systematic approach to security, privacy and appropriate access

For many companies, Internet commerce means taking credit card orders from customers shopping electronic catalogs on the World Wide Web. For others Internet commerce means dealing electronically with clients and suppliers, as an alternative to private, leased-line electronic document interchange (EDI) over value added networks or VANs). This use of the Internet is sometimes called a virtual private network (VPN) or tunneling. A third area of Internet commerce, which overlaps both of the others and includes areas largely unexplored, is digital authentication (of anything from contracts and invoices to photographs and sound bites). The issues involved in Internet commerce affect companies large and small. The author discusses some of the security problems in Internet commerce together with prospects for the future.

S. Cobb

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Security issues in Internet commerce