Development of digital certification authority in Pakistan

Author

Razeen, Muhammad ; Zahid, Javaid Iqbal ; Shamail, Shafay ; Babri, Haroon Atique

Author_Institution

Lahore Univ. of Manage. Sci., Pakistan

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

239

Lastpage

245

Abstract

Currently, the framework for e-commerce is at very early stages in Pakistan. As soon as full e-commerce starts in Pakistan, network security services will need to be provided to businesses and consumers. Digital signature certificates enable anonymous users to trust each other using public key infrastructure (PKI). Certification Authorities (CAs) like VeriSign^TM build PKI and do certificate management. Buying security services or products from these CAs will cost a lot of money to businesses in Pakistan. This paper explores the idea of developing and regulating CAs in Pakistan so that as soon as e-commerce is started, there is a technical and legal framework available for their working.

Keywords

Internet; electronic commerce; message authentication; public key cryptography; Pakistan; digital certification authority; digital signature certificates; e-commerce; network security services; public key infrastructure; security services; Authentication; Certification; Content addressable storage; Data security; Information security; Law; Legal factors; Protection; Public key; Public key cryptography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi Topic Conference, 2001. IEEE INMIC 2001. Technology for the 21st Century. Proceedings. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Lahore

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7406-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INMIC.2001.995344

Filename

995344