e-Commerce: A New Mechanism to Assign and Manage the Identity of Online Customers

Abstract

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.