Architecture of Authentication Mechanism for Emerging T-commerce Environments

Abstract

With the emergence of convergent information devices capable of delivering multimedia contents and providing an interactive communication with independence of location, new challenges about the implementation of secured environments for electronic business have arisen. Digital television (D-TV) uses the wire-network connections to provide interactive multimedia contents and value-added services such as electronic shopping. T-commerce (Digital Television Commerce) technologies make a dream of new business models an actuality, but these technologies lack in provision of the authentication architecture of users for the accountability, confidentiality and integrity of business contracts and personal preferences. This paper presents the architecture of authentication mechanism to deal with the specific challenges arising from these applications and to overcome the weakness of traditional architecture of the Internet commerce or m-commerce for the secured infrastructure of T-commerce business environments.