Secure electronic transaction

n. (in E-commerce) SET, trademark for a standard protocol for security of financial transactions carried out by Internet credit card

Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) is a standard protocol for securing credit card transactions over insecure networks, specifically, the Internet. SET is not itself a payment system, but rather a set of security protocols and formats that enables users to employ the existing credit card payment infrastructure on an open network in a secure fashion.
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