A Secure Model for Electronic Contract Enactment, Monitoring and Management

With the rapid development of e-commerce, electronic contracts are not secure enough for both businessmen and government, due to the absence of authentication, integrality, non-repudiation, uniform specification and centralized management. We propose that e-contract should involve digital signature as its primary element, and the E-Contract Record Center should be introduced into the management of e-contract. In this paper, we present a model for electronic contract enactment, monitoring and management based on the security view. Additional, a framework for e-contract management is presented with the purpose of regularizing the e-commerce market, protecting businessmen's right and interests, and facilitating governmental monitoring of the e-commerce market, where we define a lifecycle of e-contract and recounted the establishment process of e-contract. Finally, we present implement architecture for the model and framework given above, which give the service and module design of two systems: e-contract system and ECRC system.