Authentication Techniques For E-Commerce Applications: A Review

E-commerce applications are nowadays facilitating users to access resources spread at different places. It has increased the reach of people and has shortened the horizon. There can be many threats and attacks scenarios possible in the completion of an e-commerce application. So security must be intact at every step in this process. User authentication is very challenging aspect of e-commerce application. Which is secured and being backed up by remote user authentication technique. There are many schemes presently available for remote user authentication like smart card based, password based, dynamic id based and cookie based authentication. This paper analyses the various authentication techniques of remote user authentication used in e-commerce applications these days.