The eTRON wide-area distributed-system architecture for e-commerce

Abstract

As RFID chips and smart cards become pervasive, the need for strong security measures will increase. At the Sakamura Laboratory, we have developed an architecture that seeks to provide a type of lock-and-key protection to distributed systems. This architecture securely stores information used in a commercial transaction and exchanges information via the digital information infrastructure. A tamper-resistant chip is at the core of this architecture, called eTRON (Entity TRON). The authors outline the eTRON research project.