A Review on Secure Email Communications in E-commerce

Abstract

The growth of e-commerce business is very high now days. E-commerce allows the exchange of goods and
services over the internet. Shopping of goods like electronics, groceries, fashion accessories and even vehicles through
e-commerce has become popular now. With the rapid growth of internet, mobiles and other computing devices has
made e-commerce easy to use. With the use of e-commerce, the use of emails for the communication purpose has also
become popular. E-mail has become very common means of communication now days. Many companies and other
organizations use email as a primary means of communication. The main drawback is that it makes very easy for
criminals to fulfill their malicious intentions. This paper provides the method to secure and encrypt the e-mail using
OpenPGP and GnuPG in e-commerce websites. This method will secure the data which are transmitted through email
at the time of placing order and will improve customers’ confidence in online shopping