A Non-Repudiation Message Transfer Protocol for E-commerce

In the business world, exchange of signatures or receipts is a common practice in case of future dispute. Likewise, it is critical in E-commerce applications to have the security service that generates, distributes, validates, and maintains the evidence of an electronic transaction. Quite of number of non-repudiation protocols have been proposed in distributed systems and evaluated based on some evaluation criteria. However, in the context of ecommerce, there are additional evaluation criteria to be considered: Fairness to both the message sender and the message receiver with respective to their control over the completion of a transaction, the degree of trust on a third party, and existence dependency on a third-party for dispute settlement on a committed transaction. In this paper, we identify the set of requirements for a message transfer protocol in E-commerce, and propose a new nonrepudiation message transfer protocol that meets these additional criteria. Our protocol protects th...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: WECWIS
• Authors: Seokwon Yang, Stanley Y. W. Su, Herman Lam
• Keywords: Business, Evaluation Criteria, Message Sender, Message Transfer Protocol, WECWIS 2003