A secure e-ordering web service

Abstract

The electronic order (e-Ordering) service as an e-business process allows the true business-to-business secure collaboration by giving the opportunity to salesmen and purchasers to execute trustful processes of electronic trading opening new markets. The W3C working draft "Web Service Architecture (WSA) Requirements" and a set of EU Directives impose several security and privacy requirements that the e-Ordering implementations have to satisfy in order to achieve a secure transaction. This paper presents a set of these requirements and describes an e-ordering system (TOES) that address them based on extensible Markup Language (XML), XML Cryptography, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Web Services Policy Language (WSPL) and Web Services. The proposed e-Ordering service TOES is open, secure, interoperable, and affordable respecting the EU legislation.