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Seminar Report
On
Safety of e cash payment

Submitted by

NISHTHA ARORA
University Roll No- 1410991381
Class- CSE F01
(Dated: 014/11/2014)

Abstract:
As we all know cyber crime has been one of the common practices made by the computer
expert. Cyber Crime is that activity made by the people for destroying organization network,
stealing others valuable data, documents, hacking bank accounts transferring money to their
own and so on. My presentation gives detailed information regarding cyber crimes, its types
which give detailed information on topics hacking, identity theft, denial of service attack etc,
modes of cyber crimes and security measures including prevention to deal effectively with
cyber crime... We will also try to find out how the government of India is helping us to resolve
the problem of cyber crime.

Acknowledgement:
Presentation, inspiration and motivation have always played a key role in the success of any
venture.
I express my sincere thanks to Dr. Jyotsna Kaushal, dep. Dean Chitkara University, Rajpura.
I pay my deep sense of gratitude to Ms. TARUNA MANCHANDA to encourage me to the highest
peak and to provide me the opportunity to prepare the presentation. I am immensely obliged
to my friends for their elevating inspiration, encouraging guidance and kind supervision in the
completion of my presentation.
Last, but not the least, my parents are also an important inspiration for me. So with due
regards, I express my gratitude to them.

NISHTHA ARORA
1410991381

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
REAL THING: WI-FI
WI-FI TECHNOLOGY STANDARDS
WI-FI AT THE ENTERPRISE
SECURITY ISSUES
WHERE IS IT HEADED
CONCLUSION
REFRENCE

INTRODUCTION
With the onset of the Information Age, our nation is becoming increasingly dependent upon
network communications. Computer-based technology is significantly impacting our ability to
access, store, and distribute information. Among the most important uses of this technology is
electronic commerce: performing financial transactions via electronic information exchanged
over telecommunications lines. A key requirement for electronic commerce is the development
of secure and efficient electronic payment systems. The need for security is highlighted by the
rise of the Internet, which promises to be a leading medium for future electronic commerce.
Electronic payment systems come in many forms including digital checks, debit cards, credit
cards, and stored value cards. The usual security features for such systems are privacy
(protection from eavesdropping), authenticity (provides user identification and message
integrity), and no repudiation (prevention of later denying having performed a transaction) .
The type of electronic payment system focused on in this paper is electronic cash. As the name
implies, electronic cash is an attempt to construct an electronic payment system modelled after
our paper cash system. Paper cash has such features as being: portable (easily carried),
recognizable (as legal tender) hence readily acceptable, transferable (without involvement of the
financial network), untraceable (no record of where money is spent), anonymous (no record of
who spent the money) and has the ability to make "change." The designers of electronic cash
focused on preserving the features of untraceability and anonymity. Thus, electronic cash is
defined to be an electronic payment system that provides, in addition to the above security
features, the properties of user anonymity and payment untraceability..

In general, electronic cash schemes achieve these security goals via digital signatures. They can
be considered the digital analog to a handwritten signature. Digital signatures are based on public
key cryptography. In such a cryptosystem, each user has a secret key and a public key. The secret
key is used to create a digital signature and the public key is needed to verify the digital
signature. To tell who has signed the information (also called the message), one must be certain
one knows who owns a given public key. This is the problem of key management, and its
solution requires some kind of authentication infrastructure. In addition, the system must have
adequate network and physical security to safeguard the secrecy of the secret keys.
This report has surveyed the academic literature for cryptographic techniques for implementing
secure electronic cash systems. Several innovative payment schemes providing user anonymity
and payment untraceability have been found. Although no particular payment system has been
thoroughly analyzed, the cryptography itself appears to be sound and to deliver the promised
anonymity.
These schemes are far less satisfactory, however, from a law enforcement point of view. In
particular, the dangers of money laundering and counterfeiting are potentially far more serious
than with paper cash. These problems exist in any electronic payment system, but they are made
much worse by the presence of anonymity. Indeed, the widespread use of electronic cash would
increase the vulnerability of the national financial system to Information Warfare attacks. We
discuss measures to manage these risks; these steps, however, would have the effect of limiting
the users' anonymity.

1. WHAT IS ELECTRONIC CASH?

We begin by carefully defining "electronic cash." This term is often applied to any electronic
payment scheme that superficially resembles cash to the user. In fact, however, electronic cash is
a specific kind of electronic payment scheme, defined by certain cryptographic properties. We
now focus on these properties.

1.1Electronic Payment
The term electronic commerce refers to any financial transaction involving the electronic
transmission of information. The packets of information being transmitted are commonly called
electronic tokens. One should not confuse the token, which is a sequence of bits, with the
physical media used to store and transmit the information.
We will refer to the storage medium as a card since it commonly takes the form of a wallet-sized
card made of plastic or cardboard. (Two obvious examples are credit cards and ATM cards.)
However, the "card" could also be, e.g., a computer memory.
A particular kind of electronic commerce is that of electronic payment. An electronic payment
protocol is a series of transactions, at the end of which a payment has been made, using a token
issued by a third party. The most common example is that of credit cards when an electronic
approval process is used. Note that our definition implies that neither payer nor payee issues the
token.l

The electronic payment scenario assumes three kinds of players:2

a payer or consumer, whom we will name Alice.

a payee, such as a merchant. We will name the payee Bob.

a financial network with whom both Alice and Bob have accounts. We will informally
refer to the financial network as the Bank.

1.2 Conceptual Framework

There are four major components in an electronic cash system: issuers, customers, merchants,
and regulators. Issuers can be banks, or non-bank institutions; customers are referred to users
who spend E-Cash; merchants are vendors who receive E-Cash, and regulators are defined as
related government agencies. For an E-Cash transaction to occur, we need to go through at least
three stages:
1. Account Setup: Customers will need to obtain E-Cash accounts through certain issuers.
Merchants who would like to accept E-Cash will also need to arrange accounts from various ECash issuers. Issuers typically handle accounting for customers and merchants.
2. Purchase: Customers purchase certain goods or services, and give the merchants tokens which
represent equivalent E-Cash. Purchase information is usually encrypted when transmitting in the
networks.
3. Authentication: Merchants will need to contact E-Cash issuers about the purchase and the
amount of E-Cash involved. E-Cash issuers will then authenticate the transaction and approve
the amount E-Cash involved.

An interaction representing the below transaction is illustrated in the graph below

2. Classification of e-Cash
E-Cash could be on-line, or off-line. On-Line E-Cash refers to amount of digital money kept by
your E-Cash issuers, which is only accessible via the network. Off-line E-Cash refers to digital
money which you keep in your electronic wallet or other forms of off-line devices. Another way
to look at E-Cash is to see if it is traceable or not. On-line credit card payment is considered as a
kind of "Identified" E-Cash since the buyer's identity can be traced. Contrary to Identified ECash, we have "anonymous" E-Cash which hides buyer's identity. These procedures can be
implemented in either of two ways:
2.1 On-line payment means that Bob calls the Bank and verifies the validity of Alice's token 3
before accepting her payment and delivering his merchandise. (This resembles many of
today's credit card transactions.)
2.2 Off-line payment means that Bob submits Alice's electronic coin for verification and
deposit sometime after the payment transaction is completed. (This method resembles how
we make small purchases today by personal check.)
Note that with an on-line system, the payment and deposit are not separate steps. We will refer to
on-line cash and off-line cash schemes, omitting the word "electronic" since there is no danger of
confusion with paper cash.

3. Properties of Electronics Cash

Specifically, e-cash must have the following four properties, monetary value, interoperability ,
retrievability & security.

3.1 Monetrary value E-cash must have a monetary value; it must be backed by either cash
(currency), or a back-certified cashiers checqe when e-cash create by one bank is accepted
by others , reconciliation must occur without any problem. Stated another way e-cash
without proper bank certification carries the risk that when deposited, it might be return for
insufficient funds.

3.2 Interoperable E-cash must be interoperable that is exchangeable as payment for other
e-cash, paper cash, goods or services , lines of credits, deposit in banking accounts, bank
notes , electronic benefits transfer ,and the like .

3.3 Storable & Retrievable Remote storage and retrievable ( e.g. from a telephone and
communication device) would allow user to exchange e-cash ( e.g. withdraw from and
deposit into banking accounts) from home or office or while traveling .the cash could be
storage on a remote computers memory, in smart cards or in other easily transported
standard or special purpose device. Because it might be easy to create counterfeit case that
is stored in a computer it might be preferable to store cash on a dedicated device that can
not be alerted. This device should have a suitable interface to facilitate personnel
authentication using password or other means and a display so that the user can view the
cards content .

4. E-Cash Security
Security is of extreme importance when dealing with monetary transactions. Faith in the security
of the medium of exchange, whether paper or digital, is essential for the economy to function.

There are several aspects to security when dealing with E-cash. The first issue is the security of
the transaction. How does one know that the E-cash is valid?
Encryption and special serial numbers are suppose to allow the issuing bank to verify (quickly)
the authenticity of E-cash. These methods are suseptible to hackers, just as paper currency can be
counterfeited. However, promoters of E-cash point out that the encryption methods used for
electronic money are the same as those used to protect nuclear weapon systems. The encryption
security has to also extend to the smartcard chips to insure that they are tamper resistant. While it
is feasible that a system wide breach could occur, it is highly unlikely. Just as the Federal
Government keeps a step ahead of the counterfeiters, cryptography stays a step ahead of hackers.
4.1 Physical security of the E-cash is also a concern. If a hard drive crashes, or a smartcard is
lost, the E-cash is lost. It is just as if one lost a paper currency filled wallet. The industry is still
developing rules/mechanisms for dealing with such losses, but for the most part, E-cash is being
treated as paper cash in terms of physical security.
4.2 Signature and Identification. In a public key system, a user identifies herself by proving
that she knows her secret key without revealing it. This is done by performing some operation
using the secret key which anyone can check or undo using the public key. This is called
identification. If one uses a message as well as one's secret key, one is performing a digital
signature on the message. The digital signature plays the same role as a handwritten signature:

identifying the author of the message in a way which cannot be repudiated, and confirming the
integrity of the message.

4.3 Secure Hashing A hash function is a map from all possible strings of bits of any length to a
bit string of fixed length. Such functions are often required to be collision-free: that is, it must be
computationally difficult to find two inputs that hash to the same value. If a hash function is both
one-way and collision-free, it is said to be a secure hash.
The most common use of secure hash functions is in digital signatures. Messages might come in
any size, but a given public-key algorithm requires working in a set of fixed size. Thus one
hashes the message and signs the secure hash rather than the message itself. The hash is required
to be one-way to prevent signature forgery, i.e., constructing a valid-looking signature of a
message without using the secret key. The hash must be collision-free to prevent repudiation,
i.e., denying having signed one message by producing another message with the same hash.
Note that token forgery is not the same thing as signature forgery. Forging the Bank's digital
signature without knowing its secret key is one way of committing token forgery, but not the
only way. A bank employee or hacker, for instance, could "borrow" the Bank's secret key and
validly sign a token.

5. E-Cash and Monetary Freedom

5.1 Prologue
Much has been published recently about the awesome promises of electronic commerce and
trade on the Internet if only a reliable, secure mechanism for value exchange could be developed.
This paper describes the differences between mere encrypted credit card schemes and true digital
cash, which present a revolutionary opportunity to transform payments. The nine key elements of

electronic, digital cash are outlined and a tenth element is proposed which would embody digital
cash with a non-political unit of value.
It is this final element of true e-cash which represents monetary freedom - the freedom to
establish and trade negotiable instruments. For the first time ever, each individual has the power
to create a new value standard with an immediate worldwide audience.

5.2 Why monetary freedom is important

If all that e-cash permits is the ability to trade and store dollars, francs, and other governmental
units of account, then we have not come very far. Even the major card associations, such as Visa
and MasterCard, are limited to clearing settling governmental units of account. For in an age of
inflation and government ineptness, the value of what is being transacted and saved can be
seriously devalued. Who wants a hard drive full of worthless "cash"? True, this can happen in a
privately-managed digital cash system, but at least then it is determined by the market and
individuals have choices between multiple providers.

5.3 Key elements of a private e-cash system

This section compares and contrasts true e-cash to paper cash as we know it today. Each of the
following key elements will be defined and explored within the bounds of electronic commerce:

Secure
Anonymous
Portable (physical independence)
Infinite duration (until destroyed)
Two-way (unrestricted)
Off-line capable
Divisible (fungible)
Wide acceptability (trust)
User-friendly (simple)

Unit-of-value freedom

5.4 Achieving the non-political unit of value

The transition to a privately-operated e-cash system will require a period of brand-name
recognition and long-term trust. Some firms may at first have an advantage over lesser-known
name-brands, but that will soon be overcome if the early leaders fall victim to monetary
instability. It may be that the smaller firms can devise a unit of value that will enjoy wide
acceptance and stability (or appreciation).

5.5 Epilogue
True e-cash as an enabling mechanism for electronic commerce depends upon the marriage of
economics and cryptography. Independent academic advancement in either discipline alone will
not facilitate what is needed for electronic commerce to flourish. There must be a synergy
between the field of economics which emphasizes that the market will dictate the best monetary
unit of value and cryptography which enhances individual privacy and security to the point of
choosing between several monetary providers. It is money, the lifeblood of an economy that
ultimately symbolizes what commercial structure we operate within.

6. E-Cash Regulation
A new medium of exchange presents new challenges to existing laws. Largely, the laws and
systems used to regulate paper currency are insufficient to govern digital money.

The legal challenges of E-cash entail concerns over taxes and currency issuers. In addition,
consumer liability from bank cards will also have to be addressed (currently $50 for credit
cards). E-cash removes the intermediary from currency transactions, but this also removes much
of the regulation of the currency in the current system.
Tax questions immediately arise as to how to prevent tax evasion at the income or consumption
level. If cash-like transactions become easier and less costly, monitoring this potential
underground economy may be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the IRS.
The more daunting legal problem is controlling a potential explosion of private currencies. Large
institutions that are handling many transactions may issue electronic money in their own
currency. The currency would not be backed by the full faith of the United States, but by the full
faith of the institution. This is not a problem with paper currency, but until the legal system
catches up with the digital world, it may present a problem with e-cash.

7. Electronic Cash under Current Banking Law

7.1 Introduction
The current federal banking system originated during the Civil War with the enactment of the
National Bank Act of 1864 and the creation of a true national currency.
[1] Since the enactment of that first major federal banking legislation, an elaborate, complex and
overlapping web of statutes and regulations has developed governing banking institutions and the
"business of banking" in the United States.
[3] The rapidly developing electronic cash technologies raise numerous questions of first
impression as to whether these technologies fall within existing banking regulation, and if so,
how.
[4]There are also questions as to how the technologies mesh with the existing payments system.
[5] Indeed, certain of the new technologies raise the possibility of a new payments system that
could operate outside the existing system. Even if it could not, there are numerous legal

questions as to what law governs their operation and as to the applicability of existing banking
law to these technologies.
This article identifies and briefly addresses some of the key issues, which include, among others,
bank regulatory, consumer protection, financial privacy and risk allocation issues as well as
matters of monetary policy.
Because the legal conclusions as to the applicability of banking statutes to any particular
electronic cash arrangement may depend in large part upon the specific facts presented by that
arrangement, this article of necessity provides only general responses to the complex legal issues
involved in this area.

7.2 Existing and Proposed Retail Payment Systems

There are a number of conventional mediums of payment in the traditional retail system. They
include, for example: coins and currency; checks; money orders; travelers' checks; bankers'
acceptances; letters of credit; and credit cards. There also are several electronic fund transfer
("EFT") systems in wide use today, including:
Automated Teller Machines ("ATMs"): automated devices used to accept deposits, disburse cash
drawn against a customer's deminf account or pre-approved loan account or credit card, transfer
funds between accounts, pay bills and obtain account balance information.

Debit Cards: cards used for purchases which automatically provide immediate payment
to the merchant through a point-of-sale ("POS") system by debiting the customer's
deposit account.

POS Systems: systems that provide computerized methods of verifying checks and credit
availabilities, and debiting or crediting customer accounts.

The new "electronic cash" technologies that are the subject of this article include a wide variety
of approaches in which monetary "value" is stored in the form of electronic signals either on a
plastic card ("Stored Value Card Systems") or on a computer drive or disk ("E-Cash Systems").
As is discussed below, some of these approaches require a network infrastructure and third party
payment servers to process transactions; others allow the direct exchange of "value" between
remote transacting parties without requiring on-line third-party payment servers.
These developing electronic cash systems differ from EFT systems in various respects. A key
difference is that in electronic cash systems the monetary value has been transferred to the
consumer's stored value card or computer or other device before the customer uses it, whereas in
EFT systems the value is not transferred toa device controlled by the customer. Rather, the EFT

system is itself the mechanism to transfer value between the customer's deposit account and the
merchant's or other third party's deposit account.
a. Customer establishes account with issuer ("Virtual Bank") by depositing funds with Issuer.
b. Issuer holds funds from customer for future draw by recipient of value from customer.
c. When customer wants to make purchase over the Internet, customer sends encrypted
electronic e-mail message to Virtual Bank requesting funding. Message contains unique digital
"signature."

d. Virtual Bank debits customer's account and sends customer digital cash via phone lines to
customer's computer.

Digital cash system may create audit trail of transactions or may be anonymous,
depending upon the particular system.

In anonymous system, Virtual Bank adds private signature that only it can create.
Computer users can decode public version of signature using key (provided by Virtual
Bank) to verify that digital cash was issued by Virtual Bank.

e. Customer transmits digital cash to vendor, who can verify its authenticity and have it credited
to vendor's account with Virtual Bank, or who can e-mail it to another person or bank account.

f. In all likelihood, Virtual Bank will charge customer and/or vendor a transaction fee or service
charge for use of system (although anonymous systems raise different issues in this regard from
accountable systems).

CONCLUSION
Electronic cash system must have a way to protect against multiple spending. If the system is
implemented on-line, then multiple spending can be prevented by maintaining a database of
spent coins and checking this list with each payment. If the system is implemented off-line, then
there is no way to prevent multiple spending cryptographically, but it can be detected when the
coins are deposited. Cryptographic solutions have been proposed that will reveal the identity of
the multiple spenders while preserving user anonymity otherwise.
Token forgery can be prevented in an electronic cash system as long as the cryptography is
sound and securely implemented, the secret keys used to sign coins are not compromised, and
integrity is maintained on the public keys. However, if there is a security flaw or a key
compromise, the anonymity of electronic cash will delay detection of the problem. Even after the
existence of a compromise is detected, the Bank will not be able to distinguish its own valid
coins from forged ones.
The untraceability property of electronic cash creates problems in detecting money laundering
and tax evasion because there is no way to link the payer and payee. However, this is not a
solution to the token forgery problem because there may be no way to know which deposits are
suspect. In that case, identifying forged coins would require turning over all of the Bank's deposit
records to the trusted entity to have the withdrawal numbers decrypted.

Allowing transfers magnifies the problems of detecting counterfeit coins, money laundering, and
tax evasion. Coins can be made divisible without losing any security or anonymity features, but
at the expense of additional memory requirements and transaction time. In conclusion, the
potential risks in electronic commerce are magnified when anonymity is present. Anonymity
creates the potential for large sums of counterfeit money to go undetected by preventing
identification of forged coins. It is necessary to weigh the need for anonymity with these
concerns. It may well be concluded that these problems are best avoided by using a secure
electronic payment system that provides privacy, but not anonymity.