CWASAR: a European infrastructure for secure electronic commerce

Abstract

This short paper introduces the CWASAR project. The goal of CWASAR is to design implement a low cost European infrastructure for a secure electronic market place. The project was preceded by a market analysis in Germany, Spain and France, of the basic user requirements for a European-oriented system. From the results of this analysis, we have defined the main functional and architectural components of CWASAR. The description of these components is the subject of this paper. In particular, we focus on the features specifically designed to cater for the varying security requirements of end users, as well as the problems posed by the differing legal positions held by individual EU states on the use of security techniques. The CWASAR project is sponsored by the European Union.