We present an authenticatio nlogic which is capable to analyse one of the most important features of electronic commerce protocols, i.e., the accountability of transactions. By referring to a formal semantics we prove that the calculus is correcT. We apply our logic to the payment systems SET and Payword. The formal analysis explains why micropayment systems based on chains of hashvalues do not lead to the same level f assurance as usual payment systems.
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