Design and evaluation of adaptive secure protocol for E-commerce

As Internet business exponentially grows, the need for high security level categories to identify groups of connections or individual transactions is manifest. The development of an efficient and secure communication protocol seems to be highly demanding. In this paper, we propose Adaptive Secure Protocol to support secure ecommerce transactions. Our Adaptive Secure Protocol dynamically adapts the security level based on the nature and sensitivity of the interactions among participants. The security class incorporates the security level of cryptographic techniques with a degree of information sensitivity. We implement Adaptive Secure Protocol and measure the performance of Adaptive Secure Protocol. The experimental results show that the Adaptive Secure Protocol provides ecommerce transactions with high quality of security service.