Abstract :
The development of e-commerce requires security to win the confidence of its stakeholders. Among the common protocols to establish safe financial transactions, Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol has more security providing a safe protocol of payments at the level of the communication network between the buyers, sellers, banks and payment gates. In this protocol, all participants in the transaction should receive Certificate Authority (CA) identity. This paper analyzes the secure communication solutions and variety secure communication contracts for financial transactions. Then, architecture is presented to establish a web-based Certificate Authority (CA) identity for elements of Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) protocol and its implementation is described. The presented Certificate Authority (CA) identity in the article can process the requests of entities for online processing and transmit them through Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
