4.5. Third Party Services

The infrastructure for electronic business includes services provided by many independent institutions and companies. Third parties have widely varying scopes in electronic business, ranging from providing credit card authorization to generating advertisement banners. A special class of third party service providers is defined as

"A trusted third party is an impartial organization delivering business confidence, through commercial and technical security features, to an electronic transaction. It supplies technically and legally reliable means of carrying out, facilitating, producing independent evidence about and/or arbitrating on an electronic transaction. Its services are provided and underwritten by technical, legal, ...

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