METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN SUPPORT OF NON-REPUDIATION

摘要

A non-repudiation mechanism for e-business is provided. E-business covers three areas: Intranet, Extranet, and E-commerce. The invention provides a link between a server which sends Internet requests to the requesting browser, and the application which houses the data and any computing functions. An audit trail is also provided to fix accountability. The invention controls the session between the server and the e-business application. The result is that each and every system request made via Internet technology can be correlated to a specific system user. Management utilities and reports provide the audit trail which provides non-repudiation (accountability).