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(Project
Coordinator : Dr. Ashutosh Saxena, Shri. A. R. Dani & Dr. Supriya
Kumar De)
E-Commerce is the way business is transacted on the Internet enabling the parties that have never met before to do business. The major requirement for e-Commerce is to provide a highly secure and trusted environment over the Internet for conducting commercial transactions. This requires authentication of transacting parties, privacy, message integrity and non-repudiation.
Digital Signatures and Public Key Infrastructure Technology address this requirement of e-Commerce. For any business organization, it is important to secure its Intranet from the open network and provide selective access control. Intrusion Detection System addresses this requirement. Many of the above technologies, which provide necessary security are expensive and are subjected to export controls. Moreover, these security products may have trap doors.
One of the most important components of e-Commerce is e-payment over Internet. The available payment technologies are expensive and are only suitable for the advanced countries. For the Indian market, it’s the cheque that is the most widely used payment instrument and hence it needs to be made available on the Internet.
Considering the strategic importance of E-Commerce Technologies, especially in the Indian context, CMC Limited and IDRBT initiated the “Technologies for E-Commerce” project with the Ministry of Information Technology, Govt of India.
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