Enabling E-Commerce Through PKI
John Hughes · Network Security · 2000
There are two main segments of the E-commerce marketplace: Business-to-Business (B2B) and the Business-to-Consumer (B2C). Whilst most transactions in both segments are protected using some type of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based technology [such as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)], their trust infrastructures are built upon completely different principles.