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e-Commerce & Digital Signatures Presentation by: Naveen Jakhar, ITS

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e-Commerce & Digital Signatures

Presentation by:Naveen Jakhar, ITS

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Topics to be Covered in this Presentation:

What is Digital Signature ? How does digital signature work? Advantages and Shortcomings of Digital Signatures What is e-Commerce How does e-commerce work?Advantages and Disadvantages of e-commerce

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Introduction to Digital Signatures: Digital Signature is a type of asymmetric cryptography used to simulate

the security properties of a signature in digital form, rather than written form

Digital signature schemes normally give two algorithms, one for signing which involves the user's secret or private key, and one for verifying signatures which involves the user's public key

The output of the signature process is called the "digital signature.“

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Introduction to Digital Signatures: Digital Signature is an electronic signature that can be used to

authenticate the identity of the sender of a message or the signer of a document, and possibly to ensure that the original content of the message or document that has been sent is unchanged

Digital signatures are easily transportable, cannot be imitated by someone else, and can be automatically time-stamped. The ability to ensure that the original signed message arrived means that the sender cannot easily repudiate it later

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How Digital Signature works? The use of digital signatures usually involves two processes, one

performed by the signer and the other by the receiver of the digital signature:

Digital signature creation uses a hash result derived from and unique to both the signed message and a given private key. For the hash result to be secure, there must be only a negligible possibility that the same digital signature could be created by the combination of any other message or private key

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How Digital Signature works? Digital signature verification is the process of checking the digital

signature by reference to the original message and a given public key, thereby determining whether the digital signature was created for that same message using the private key that corresponds to the referenced public key

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Illustration using an example:Assume you were going to send the draft of a contract to your lawyer in another town. You want to give your lawyer the assurance that it was unchanged from what you sent and that it is really from you1. You copy-and-paste the contract (it's a short one!) into an e-mail note2. Using special software, you obtain a message hash (mathematical summary) of

the contract.3. You then use a private key that you have previously obtained from a public-

private key authority to encrypt the hash 4. The encrypted hash becomes your digital signature of the message. (Note that

it will be different each time you send a message)

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Illustration using an example:At the other end, your lawyer receives the message. 1.To make sure it's intact and from you, your lawyer makes a hash of the

received message2.Your lawyer then uses your public key to decrypt the message hash or

summary3.If the hashes match, the received message is valid

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Advantages of Digital Signatures:Authentication : Digital signatures can be used to authenticate the

source of messages. When ownership of a digital signature secret key is bound to a specific user, a valid signature shows that the message was sent by that user

Integrity : if a message is digitally signed, any change in the message will invalidate the signature. Furthermore, there is no efficient way to modify a message and its signature to produce a new message with a valid signature, because this is still considered to be computationally infeasible by most cryptographic hash functions

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Shortcomings of Digital Signatures:Non-repudiation:

In a cryptographic context, the word repudiation refers to the act of disclaiming responsibility for a message. A message's recipient may insist the sender attach a signature in order to make later repudiation more difficult, since the recipient can show the signed message to a third party (eg, a court) to reinforce a claim as to its signatories and integrity. However, loss of control over a user's private key will mean that all digital signatures using that key, and so ostensibly 'from' that user, are suspect. Nonetheless, a user cannot repudiate a signed message without repudiating their signature key

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e-Commerce: e-Commerce is the trading or facilitation of trading in products or

services using computer networks, such as the Internet e-Commerce stands for Electronic Commerce 1979: Michael Aldrich demonstrates the first online

shopping system Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web

for at least one part of the transaction's life cycle

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Why e-Commerce? Low Entry Cost Reduces Transaction Costs Access to Global Market Secure Market Share

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Why e-Commerce? Low Entry Cost Reduces Transaction Costs Access to Global Market Secure Market Share

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Why e-Commerce? Low Entry Cost Reduces Transaction Costs Access to Global Market Secure Market Share

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Why e-Commerce? Low Entry Cost Reduces Transaction Costs Access to Global Market Secure Market Share

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Different Models of e-commerce

• Business to Business• Business to Consumer• Consumer to Business • Consumer to Consumer

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Benefits of e-Commerce? No Checkout queues Reduced prices You can shop anywhere in the world Easy access 24*7 Wide selection to cater for all consumers

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Disadvantages of e-Commerce? Not everyone is connected to internet No Physical inspection of the products Possibility of online transactions fraud

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Government Initiatives

• Better broadband connectivity for tier 2 and tier 3 cities• Ministry of urban development has proposed a smart national common

mobility card for travelling as well as retail purposes• Expected introduction of GST- enable easier movement of goods across

the country• Introduction of cashless transactions

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