SETNR/A: an agent-based secure payment protocol for mobile commerce

  • Authors:
  • Chung-Ming Ou;C. R. Ou

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Management, Kainan University, Luchu 338, Taiwan.;Department of Electrical Engineering, Hsiuping Institute of Technology, Taichung 412, Taiwan

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Non-repudiation of a mobile payment transaction ensures that when a buyer (B) sends some messages to a seller (S), neither B nor S can deny having participated in this transaction. An evidence of a transaction is generated by wireless PKI mechanism such that B and S cannot repudiate sending and receiving the purchase order respectively. SETNR/A protocol is proposed to improve the weakness of lacking non-repudiation mechanism from the secure electronic transaction (SET) protocol and SET/A for credit card-based transactions; on the other hand, agent-based protocol is ideal for complicated payment system. Broker generates a mobile agent for B which carries encrypted purchase order to S. A trusted third party (TTP) acts as a lightweight notary for evidence generations. One advantage of this agent-based payment protocol is to reduce inconvenience for mobile clients such as connection time and search for suitable merchant servers, etc.; it also provides necessary security mechanisms for mobile payment transactions.