Electronic Postage Systems

Technology, Security, Economics

By: Gerrit Bleumer

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Hardcover | 11 December 2006

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As postal liberalization gains momentum, traditional postage meter markets are being transformed into digital meter markets for enterprise mailers. Modern technologies such as cryptography, digital signatures, hardware security devices, the Internet, 2D bar codes, and high-speed scanning equipment have come together to establish different flavors of electronic postage, addressing the needs of postal operators, private carriers and mailers.

Electronic Postage Systems: Technology, Security, Economics introduces a taxonomy of electronic postage systems and explains their security risks and countermeasures. The underlying cryptographic mechanisms are introduced and explained, and the industrial-scale electronic postage systems existing worldwide, are sorted out with respect to this taxonomy. The author also discusses privacy and anonymous mail, the state of standardization of electronic postage, and the process of security evaluation and testing of electronic postage systems.

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List of Figures	p. xiii
List of Tables	p. xvii
Foreword	p. xix
Preface	p. xxi
Acknowledgements	p. xxv
Introduction	p. 1
What is Electronic Postage	p. 1
Short History of Postage	p. 2
Fraud, Meter Manipulation and Countermeasures	p. 9
The Rise of Electronic Postage	p. 16
Advancing Postal Markets	p. 20
Postal Security	p. 20
Postal Liberalization	p. 21
Competitive Postal Operators	p. 22
Postal Presorters	p. 23
International Mail	p. 23
Outlook	p. 24
Electronic Postage Systems	p. 25
General Model of E-Postage Systems	p. 25
E-Postage Devices	p. 25
E-Postage Minting System	p. 28
Indicia	p. 32
Mail Processing and Verification	p. 34
Multi-Carrier Capabilities	p. 35
E-Postage Devices	p. 35
Interface to E-Postage Provider	p. 35
Storing Electronic Postage	p. 36
Computing Secure Indicia	p. 37
Postal Security Devices	p. 38
Value Added Services	p. 39
Postage Rate Tables	p. 40
Acquiring Usage Data from E-postage Devices	p. 43
Preparing Traceable Mail	p. 45
Postage or Date Correction	p. 46
Reply Mail	p. 47
Commercial Metering Services	p. 47
Addressing, Mail Forwarding and Return Services	p. 48
General Architecture of E-Postage Systems	p. 51
E-Postage Devices	p. 51
Closed Offline E-Postage Devices	p. 52
Open Offline E-Postage Devices	p. 63
Open Online E-postage Devices	p. 68
E-Postage Provider System	p. 70
Local and Remote State of an E-Postage Device	p. 72
Offline E-Postage Device Interface	p. 73
Online E-Postage Device Interface	p. 76
Database of Remote States	p. 78
System Operator Interface	p. 78
Financial Interface	p. 79
Postal Interface	p. 81
Postal Registration Interface	p. 83
Post Backoffice	p. 84
Link to Bank	p. 84
Link to E-Postage Provider	p. 84
Link to Mail Processing Center	p. 85
Mail Processing Centers	p. 85
Processing Mail	p. 86
Postage Verification at Mail Processing Centers	p. 87
Cryptography Primer	p. 91
Basic Cryptographic Mechanisms	p. 91
Confidentiality and Privacy	p. 92
Symmetric Encryption	p. 93
Asymmetric Encryption	p. 94
Constructions	p. 94
Security of Encryption Mechanisms	p. 95
Hash Functions	p. 96
Constructions	p. 97
Message Authentication	p. 98
Message Authentication Codes	p. 100
Digital Signatures	p. 101
Security of Message Authentication Mechanisms	p. 102
Key Management	p. 106
Key Management Life Cycle	p. 107
Random Bit Generators	p. 109
Session Key Establishment	p. 112
Public Key Certificates	p. 113
Security Domains	p. 114
Security Architecture	p. 117
General Security Architecture	p. 119
What is a Security Architecture	p. 119
Offline E-Postage Systems	p. 119
Mail Processing Domain (A)	p. 119
Refill Domain (B)	p. 121
Online E-Postage Systems	p. 121
Mail Processing Domain (A)	p. 122
Online E-Postage Domain (C)	p. 122
Backoffice Security Domains	p. 123
Provider Post Backoffice Domain (D)	p. 123
Provider Bank Backoffice Domain (E)	p. 124
Post Bank Backoffice Domain (F)	p. 125
Summary of Cryptographic Keys	p. 125
Industrial Offline E-Postage Systems	p. 127
Industrial Offline E-Postage	p. 127
The Closed Offline E-Postage Market	p. 127
United States Postal Services	p. 128
IBIP for Closed Systems	p. 129
Postal Value Added Services	p. 134
IBI-Lite for Closed Systems	p. 139
Canada Post Corporation	p. 140
Digital Meter Indicia Specification (DMIS)	p. 141
Postal Value Added Services	p. 147
Deutsche Post	p. 151
Frankit	p. 152
Postal Value Added Services	p. 160
Netherlands Post (TPG Post)	p. 164
Other Postal Markets	p. 165
Preliminary Appraisal	p. 165
Industrial Online E-Postage Systems	p. 167
Industrial Online E-Postage	p. 167
The Online E-Postage Market	p. 167
United States Postal Services	p. 169
IBIP for Open Online E-Postage Systems	p. 169
Postal Value Added Services	p. 173
IBI-Lite for Online E-Postage Systems	p. 174
Deutsche Post	p. 174
Stampit for Open Online E-Postage Systems	p. 175
Postal Value Added Services	p. 180
Security Risks in E-Postage Systems	p. 183
Risk Management	p. 183
Attacker Model	p. 185
Backoffice Domains	p. 186
Refill, Online E-Postage and Mail Delivery Domain	p. 186
Threats to E-Postage Systems	p. 187
Social Engineering	p. 187
Backoffice Domains	p. 188
Refill Domain and Online E-Postage Domain	p. 188
Mail Processing Domain	p. 190
Algorithmic Level	p. 191
Security Safeguards	p. 195
Revenue Reconciliation	p. 196
Backoffice Domains	p. 196
Refill Domain and Online E-Postage Domain	p. 197
Mail Processing Domain	p. 199
Privacy in E-Postage Systems	p. 201
Anonymous Mail	p. 201
R-Anonymous Mail	p. 202
P-Anonymous Mail	p. 202
Fully-Anonymous Mail	p. 203
Anonymous Postmarks	p. 203
Pseudonymity and Unlinkability	p. 203
Anonymous Electronic Postmarks	p. 204
Availability	p. 205
Evaluation, Assurance and Postal Approval	p. 207
Terminology	p. 207
The Postal Approval Process	p. 207
The Security Evaluation Process	p. 212
Security Compliance Testing	p. 213
FIPS 140	p. 213
International Postage Meter Approval Requirements	p. 216
Security Model of Digital Postage Meters	p. 217
FIPS 140 vs. Common Criteria	p. 219
Integration Testing of E-Postage Provider System	p. 221
Readability Testing	p. 222
Postal Standardization Bodies	p. 223
CEN TC 331 Postal Services	p. 223
Universal Postal Union (UPU)	p. 224
Outlook	p. 225
The Future of Electronic Postage	p. 225
References	p. 227
List of Acronyms	p. 235
About the Author	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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