Loyalty System as a Secure Payment Scheme in Multiple Internet Shopping Malls

The growth of the Internet has brought may kinds of electronic payment schemes that can be applied to electronic commerce applications. Generally speaking, conventional loyalty system is not a payment system but a part of customer service. Our loyalty system, however, adds monetary functions and security mechanism to the concept of bonus point, so it can make the electronic markets user entire bonus system as an electronic payment scheme, First, we introduce the organization and the protocol structure of he loyalty system. Next, we describe monetary characteristics, security scheme and anonymity to show our loyalty system can be used a functionally complete payment system.