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This paper describes our experience with implementing an electronic payment system for the PalmPilot. Although Palm OS lacks support for many desired security features, we are able to build a system suitable for small payments. We discuss the advantages and disadvan- tages of using a PDA to make secure payments as opposed to using a smartcard or a desktop PC. In addition, we describe the engineering of PDA-PayWord, our implementation of a commerce protocol that takes advantage of both elliptic curve and RSA public key cryptography to support payments efficiently on PDAs with limited processing capability.
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Daswani, N., Boneh, D. (1999). Experimenting with Electronic Commerce on the PalmPilot. In: Franklin, M. (eds) Financial Cryptography. FC 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1648. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48390-X_1
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