Security Protocol Design for Electronic-Cash Transactions in a Mobile-PKI Environment

According to growth of the IT industry, the e-commerce is revitalized and the necessity of e-cash is being stressed. As several e-cash systems are developed and applied due to it, the systems are contributing to development of e-commerce. The present thesis is a research for providing the convenience, divisibility and transfer of e-cash and, etc, of commodity money to the e-cash in the same way. However, because the e-cash is an electronic data, it is exposed to a security risk such as double-spending and forgery/falsification, etc. Accordingly, the present thesis aims to safely prevent security threat that the electronic data have, while providing the function of commodity money.