A PKI-Based Authentication Approach for E-Business Systems

Abstract

With the rapid development of E-Business systems, the technology of distributed services and security becomes research focus in the field of Internet based applications. The distributed E-Business application platform has strong security requirements and specific demands on secure user authentication. After analyzing the distributed authentication protocol and public key infrastructure (PKI), a method for distributed E-Business application authentication using public key cryptography is introduced in this paper. By distributing most of the authentication workload away from the trusted intermediary and to the communicating parties, significant enhancements to security and scalability can be achieved.