E-commerce: A New Mechanism to Assign and Manage the Identity of Online Customers
Umair Ujala · Global Journal of Enterprise Information System · 2014
The security issues of e-Commerce are related to economic loss and privacy leak. The all kind of fraud and crime are mainly due to the anonymity in the world of Internet. These issues can efficiently be controlled by managing the true identity of e-Commerce transaction partners. The true identity of the transaction partners can be used to track and locate the unlawful activities performed by a person. The vulnerability issues in the e-Commerce linked with anonymity can also be handled by the true identity mechanism. The mechanism will not only be suitable for the e-Commerce but also can be used for the overall network security breached by the illegal perpetrator taking the advantage of anonymity on the Internet. The anonymity is one of the strengths of e-Commerce. Therefore, revealing the identity is a loss in the generic strength of e-Commerce. In this paper, I have proposed a mechanism to manage the true identity of the transaction partners without the loss of anonymity with the help of a trusted third party. The mechanism is based upon cryptographic technique and a trusted third party identity distribution center. The mechanism has strong capability of fraud control over the Internet, taking place due to anonymity.