Electronic Commerce Technology and its Security Problems

With the rapid development of the Internet, electronic commerce is getting more and more applications. On the Internet many electronic Commerce applications can be used today, but most of them provide only weak security or even none whatsoever. A major cause of this problem is the variety of technologies used to create such applications. Most existing security architectures are not designed to work in different environments. This paper first discusses the concept of the electronic commerce, and then mainly analyzes the security technology of electronic commerce.