Bi-directional Web document protection system for serious e-commerce applications

Author

De Zoysa, Kasun ; Muftic, Sead

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Colombo, Sri Lanka

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

11

Lastpage

16

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a security system for protection of HTML documents and forms, based on the use of certificates, smart cards, and cryptographic encapsulation. Our system provides strong authentication of users based on smart cards and peer-to-peer authentication of users and Web servers based on the challenge/response protocol. Strong protection of Web documents and non-repudiation of Web transactions are provided by using digital certificates and digital envelopes. All security services are applied in both directions: from Web servers to browsers, and also from browsers to Web servers.

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; cryptography; electronic commerce; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; smart cards; HTML documents; Internet; Web browsers; Web servers; bidirectional Web document protection system; certificates; challenge response protocol; cryptographic encapsulation; digital envelopes; e-commerce applications; peer-to-peer authentication; security system design; smart cards; user authentication; Authentication; Bidirectional control; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Encapsulation; HTML; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Smart cards; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel Processing Workshops, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

ISSN

1530-2016

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1680-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPPW.2002.1039706

Filename

1039706