Research on PKI-Based E-Commerce Security Mechanism

As a new business model, E-Commerce provides a more convenient business mode and lower transaction cost for customers allover the world. The development of E-Commerce challenges to the business management ability and the information delivery technology. The establishment of the security architecture is the most important problem. And currently E-Commerce security is still an obstacle of the development of E-Commerce. So it has become a crucial step for E-Commerce to construct a safe and effective transaction environment. The paper puts forward a PKI-based E-Commerce security model utilizing PKI (Public Key Infrastructure), which is a generally adaptive secure infrastructure. Then the paper analyzes the application and security of the model, in order to make beneficial attempt in the field of E-Commerce security.