Privacy and Protection in Electronic Transaction: A Review of The E-Commerce Security Protocols
Taroub Ahmed Mustafa Sa'ed · 2015
E-commerce applications are becoming popular day by day as they are working like a virtual shop.Writing good Ecommerce application is tedious task and complex also.The applications if made complex are very difficult to maintain.Usability is a very basic concept in the E-commerce application.User has to get the information at one click and with proper feedback.As these are web based applications, efficiency matters a lot for this application.As transaction in e-commerce faces the problems such as database exploits, log data mining and sniffing attacks which can be resolved by using different security measure.Hence, security is important in e-commerce application.In today's electronic world of business, trust is the center component between the consumer and the internet Merchant.Researchers found trust very important, especially, in the relationships between consumers and e-vendors.Based on the analysis of the basic concepts, the security infrastructure and payment system of electronic commerce and the thorough and comprehensive research on the security technology, authentication and transaction process, this paper points out some aspects of excellence and deficiencies in security protocols beginning with iKP, SSL, SET, 3d-Secure and finally other modified models of 3dsecure protocols.