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Cyber Security Intelligence and Ethereum Blockchain

Technology for E-commerce
Mujeeb-ur-Rehman1, Abdullah Lakhan2, Zahoor Hussain3, Fida Hussain Khoso4, Aijaz Ahmed Arain5
1,2
Benazir Bhutto Shaheed University Lyari Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, [email protected],
[email protected]
3
Computing Department FCIT, Indus University Karachi Pakistan, Email:[email protected]
4
Dept. of Basic Science, Dawood University of Engineering & Technology Karachi,
Sindh, Pakistan, [email protected]
5
Deptt.of Computer Science, Quaid-e-Awam University of Engineering, Science &Technology
Nawabshah, Pakistan, [email protected]

 delivery of information stored on inflexible ledger which is

ABSTRACT only available by permissioned network members. As name
reflects [8][12][16] Blockchain is consisting on blocks
The days, the usage of E-commerce applications in the (“digital pieces of information”) and chain (“stored in a
distributed network has been increasing progressively. These public database”) with involvement of cryptography every
applications bring many advantages such as online shopping block is linked with each other for data security, entered data
from different places. For the sake of simplicity, offloading cannot be amend in block.
data of applications from user devices to servers lead to many 1.3 Cryptography
research challenges. This paper devises a novel A method of storing and transmitting data in a specific way
blockchain-enabled system for E-commerce applications. The where only reliant can read and process. Cryptography is
network consists of ethereum nodes that can implement associated with the way toward altering over familiar plain
symmetric security to provide valid and secure hashing of content into invisible content and the other way around. It is a
data in distributed computing. The simulation results show [17] technique for putting away and meet up information in a
that the proposed blockchain-enabled system outperforms all particular structure so just those for whom it is expected can
existing systems in terms of security examine and handle it. Cryptography shields information
from stealing or modification, yet can likewise be utilized for
Key words: Blockchain, Data, System, Offloading, client verification.
Application In cryptography, we start with the decoded information,
mention to as plaintext. Plaintext is scrambled into figure text,
1. INTRODUCTION which will thusly (for the most part) be decoded once again
1.1 E-commerce into usable plaintext. The encryption and decoding influenced
The E-commerce has highlighted factors for its popularity by on the sort of cryptography work together being utilized and
like high goods and products, smart transactions and much some type of key.
more relatable services where 1.4 Cryptocurrency A digital payment system built using
some of fields [1] are needed to discuss to cater any request Blockchain technology where transactions occur without
like, generated ID’s, location and even phone numbers which involving banks as anyone can send and receive money
may tends towards privacy issue specially for comments digitally other than carrying physically. This transaction takes
section under any product. Here it can be a challenging to place in a public ledger and entries are carried on an online
threaten any customer database.
for their delivered reviews against products. To control such 1.5 Current Payment Systems
activities [12] we have different technologies and blockchain Any electronic devices like, computer, phone, printer and
is one of them to ensure privacy of customers for their product many other are connected through internet are nodes, to ensure
reviews and e-payment details. the security of blockchain in different fields we have focused on
1.2 Blockchain technology banking sector where offered services like bill payment, fund
It is distributed inflexible ledger which supports system for transfer, account information (personal details) is frequently
keeping records, transactions and tracking resources in accessed which needs to be secured, the main idea to state this
network where each node is connected with each other and problem is security, here each of the transaction will be stored
every node is called as a block. Blockchain is an ideal for in blocks without involvement of third parties. In addition to
information as it supports [15] frequent, distributed and clear discuss contemporary payment systems, it is basically to reduce
banking procedures and to facilitate community with ease and

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comfort. In the year of 2008 PRISM Pakistan Real-Time token generated by [21] initial transaction to measure security
Interbank Settlement System retained by State Bank of for personal details, fund transfer, account statement, amount
Pakistan which was deliberated to reconcile the large-value deposit and withdrawal, investment, managing cards and
payments. Whereas Retail Payment System (RPS) embrace the balance enquiry. The main contribution of this research
outmoded as well as present with dealing of both cheque and includes:
cash, these said mode of payments can be dealt for fund  We conducted appraisal on numerous e-commerce websites
transfer. Communal payment methods like Digital cash [2] to analyze different payment methods offered on their
which required digital wallet from where cash is withdrawn in products delivery.
counter to any purchase instantly and the said method does not  We improve detailed discussion on blockchain and its
need and personal identity. In addition with credit cards which corresponding technologies, like IPFS, smart contracts and
only work for pre-defined limits on payment. There holder may Ethereum.
purchase any of desired item. To deal such conditions ratio of Previously transaction was taking place physically where the
interest is also implicit on transactions for extension of time risk for fraud in ledger was high but blockchain technology
length, the limit is set to provide customers comfort for their deals such concern on ease where each information is stored
done transactions. Electronic fund transfer occurs between on blocks and these blocks are connected with eachother by
seller and buyer in terms of fund transfers where the client program. In addition S. Sakho et.al [6] depict a system
transaction take place with digits or number of series that grant customers to make transactions possible among
mentioned on cheques. These all transactions proceed under them, their entered information is stored in registers and
Automated Clearing House (ACH). Other payment methods banks can review all entered details, the proposed approach is
for E-commerce [19] like U.S postal service, American under consensus algorithm through which banks can save the
Express, Western Union, such methods can make payment amount instead of utilizing it. Researcher has emit bank
easy for receivers. transactions at easiest, fastest and cheaper way without
To indulge multiple third parties can be reason of risk with indunging third parties but keeping records in blckchain
failed transaction status in current payment system, hence the technology and the token can be used for destination tracing.
security element [20] is very essential for satisfaction of Security is always seen as basic requirement for any
customers and the loss of trust leading for customer organization. Cashless payments [4] like cards are reinstating
information and money shared among organization and the amount use in transactions and the ratio of using it is
customer can impact negative throughout. In addition, we can much higher than any debit and credit cards. Adoption of
fix these problems and improve our financial system such payment method is beneficial for society that’s why its
blockchain technology is quite trending for creating incremental ratio is between 70-100% with reference to debit
decentralized applications. To plant [19] trending technology and credit card they have range within 20%.Moreover today’s
will boost payment methods for any done transaction. In sight banks are offering major online services [6] these online
of Ethereum [8] which directs for creation of contracts at services take place among different account holders which
public network that each single entity can view transaction can held between domestic and international banking where
instead of concerned people. bank are linked without any involvement of third parties for
We discuss several payment systems used worldwide in the currencies and financial institutes. To improve data security,
light of blockchain technology, which carries different forms of user’s and transaction information blockchain is a new and
transactions in the form of secured blocks where each of top prior technology which directs [7] privacy building for
previous hash value is furthered in new block. decentralized payment system hence the proposed result like
Monero and Zerocash is oppressed for completely centralized
2. RELATED WORK anonymous payment such as money laundering activities. In
the time of blockchain technology many other researchers
2.1 E-commerce payments have put their contributions as [3] record keeping for
A. Yadav et.al. [3] propose the work for food court where they restaurants like menu and order placement. The blockchain
divided the menu list in different sections for the ease of technology is an arrangement of sequential records associated
customers where they can choose items of their choice, this with nodes. The study [1] and [14] suggested distributed
procedure will place orders in a cart and amount will be raised ledger database for durable record tracking within parties,
against such orders, here payments are made with generated however blockchain has an appealing consideration in
token with blockchain technology. the ordering system has different areas due to its uncommon structure. In addition [2]
division on three segments like money collector web app, active and protected payment used in education is proposed
shopkeeper web app and customer mobile app. The use of with crypto-asset for massive open online courses (MOOC)
blockchain technology is used to store transactions in the form environment where researcher has presented multi-party
of blocks over hash pointers. business model on permissioned blockchain, furthermore the
For attempted transaction. Zurich’s Falcon [6] private bank is concept of this blockchain technology is highly developed in
the first bank which offers crypto currency by blockchain asset terms of security and privacy, Today’s organizations and
management service for clients, our recommended system will institutes are more reliant for security purpose and blockchain
roof banking sector where role of banker will be replaced with technology is offering such features amongst all said areas.

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Hence its reflections is forwarded day by day for domestic and

international levels for various fields such as[2], [3], [4], [6],
[7] and [9] an electronic payment systems for food court,
banking transactions, social networks, education and many
more. Although as per earlier research [1] stemming of such
payments is still ambiguous for recent state of the art
blockchain technology for feasible snags and limitations.
Apart from blockchain technology, [5] internet of things is
the dominant technology for development of user affectionate
device for dealing of important activities here concerned
devices can get disturbed with external attacks, to make sure
these attacks blockchain Is needed for application of worthy
security doors for peer to peer connection.
Cryptocurrency [6] is universal expanse currency used in
interbank not for payment currency. It has been [9] basic
blockchain application and projects [2] like Ethereum (ETH),
Ripple (XRP), EOS, the dependency of these cryptocurrencies
are on public blockchain which in no involvement of any
credible authority. The two factors for dependency of
cryptocurrency are supply and demand in market of digital
currency. Blockchain technology [10] yields possible results
for financial incorporation.
Figure 1 Blockchain based framework for e-payment using
3 .RESEARCH GAP (PROBLEM STATEMENT)
Ethereum
Corporation have remarkable features to enhance customer’s 4.2 Secure e-payments
The prime impartial of the projected structural design is to
facility, the inspiration of work is based on security of
allow secure e-payments. We contemplate the picture where
customer within financial organization here the role of
we have use Ethereum on cyber security. To promote cyber
financial institutes is leading, we aim to propose a method
security we have created security and privacy layer which
under Blockchain technology using Ethereum and make sure
holds all sensitive data and store in file. The said security and
to each of transactions will be secured while containing
privacy layer has further secured software and application
timestamp, and past record hashes. The prevailing system is
layer along with system security which keeps data more strict
an active for hackers where they can breach though proposed
within blocks. It is a network composed of nodes [8] which
approach we can work exceptionally where each history will
resist unwanted activities and contain auditable record for all
be associated with cryptography cooperation and each block
transactions on network. This allow users to do task like
will be secured through generated protocols.
money transfer, buying and selling, and much more.
4. PROPOSED SOLUTION & ITS JUSTIFICATION The proposed method is consisting on four layers where each
of layer performs action.
This section will present Ethereum Blockchain which 4.3 Blockchain Layer
provides end-to-end security, it is used to run decentralized Blockchain layer where smart contracts take place between
digital application which empower users for direct customer and merchant with duly discussed agreements and
agreements, and transactions to buy, sell, and trade goods the data like personal ID’s, name, address, location, and
without involving third party. To sidestep related contact number, these information will be saved in IPFS.
organization for any transaction and creating personal crowd
source instead of running crowded sites. Ethereum promote 4.4. Service Layer
network of computers which act as supercomputers and it is Service layer as name reflects, service layer display the
second-largest cryptocurrency supporting platform after route of transactions among consumer and corporation.
Bitcoin. When a consumer ask for any query, or put a transaction
4.1 Smart Contracts request the entire process will go under blocks and each
Smart contracts are code sequencing which perform at the next block will carry the information of previous block, this
time of meeting pre-defined terms and conditions. Smart manner a sequence of blocks will be created and we named
contracts are highly credible for business collaborations to as blockchain transactions, this technology seems much
carry out certain types of agreements without emissary efficient in terms of privacy as it will be too tough for
involvement hackers to attack on sensitive information though the
information is divided into chunks we called blocks, these
blocks are paying leading role to transact any transactions.

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4.5 Access Layer characters. This generated code is further proceed

Access layer which actually depicts the flow of transaction for request verication code (RVc).
or requested put by any customer and here devices are
dealt as a source of transformation. Customer may use any
of the device to access E-Commerce for their desired goods
and products and those payment transactions will made
through application accessed on device.
4.6 Decentralized Application Layer (DApp)
Decentralized Application Layer (DApp Layer) is
created to make sure the stack holders who can be
beneficent like merchants, government Institutes,
employee, community, customer, dealer, trades, and
supplier. These all above designed layers are directly
connected to the Ethereum and these all layers are
possible and working for proposed solution which is
Ethereum.
Figure 3 RVc: Request Verification code against product
query
Request verification code is a phase where a beneficiar is
waiting for approval as it verifies the code on both sides
(vendor and beneficiar) untill the code is not varified we call it
the request is in progress status as far as the code I svariied the
request is moved on its access, here the code is decrypt and
decrypted or may get a hashed to complete the procedure.
Furthermore the code is varified, it dispays a result yeah
progress.
Ethereum offers an interface with the Ethereum network in
the web3.js API for developers where apps are interpreted by
Ethereum network and transactions can be submitted on its
Figure 2 Payment system architecture for e-commerce network In order for a transaction, when amount is
transferred to the node processing. The apes file is an
The procedure of entering request on any platform application format where we have shared e-payment security
where basic information is needed to carry an contract. An application frontend is developed under HTML
enquiry against any product like customer’s ID, where users can get input for their desired requirement like
name, location, and contact number to access details fund transfer, money withdrawal, money deposit etc. And the
of customer and make delivery easy and comfortable role of cyber security in proposed technique is intended by
from beneficiary. Here the figure 2 depicts three blocks protocols. These protocols will be generated on each
different stages where each of stage is representing a block when request is engendered by user, so the encrypted
complete picture. For request entry from client is request will proceed in the form of protected blocks here the
displayed on stage one and the working on request said protocols are actually ether, ether will hold random series
generated at stage-1 is carried on stage-2 on of mixed numbers made at each request. This random number
merchant level here product details are maintained series will have extension of previous passcodes so
with their product code and price. Customer will organizations can keep tracking the record for spawned
choose product according to price and will move for request. The main motive of this advancement is to prevent
further procedure like payment method, client can attacks from outsource and provide an approach which can
get different payment methods to carry forward secure data.
his/her product steps. On stage-3 we can see the
number of blocks generated at each transaction and 4.7 System Plan
carrying pervious hash values to make this The blockchain e-commerce secure payment system is
transaction more secure. comprised on merchant, customer, dealer employee, trades,
The delination from figure 3 is based on vendor and supplier and community. Blockchain operates as a distributed
beneficiary where vendor can send request for its computing system in orders of magnitude. The maintenance
products which is forwarded in hashes and can be of node communication and truth within faults is basically
encrypted to make request more private, here a consensus. It owns steady replicas of all the nodes.
passcode is generated which holds a series
combination of alphabets, digits and special

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5. SIMULATION AND RESULTS name, address and location. We designed secure e-payment
The results are carried in sequence diagrams where figure 4 model for e-commerce by using Blockchain technology. The
represents the complete cycle of payment within blockchain user’s information is protected by hash strings. We
technology where the role of each layer is clear like for client, presented the secure e-payment system for e-commerce
e-commerce, merchant, e-payment, and blockchain. The where user’s identity is protected through hashes. In
sequence diagram actually follows the flow of research area addition we can increase privacy by adding security level on
that we made in this paper. each transaction, and hide their shared personal details for
any product. The proposed system is well implicit in the area
of e-commerce where the number of users are rapid and their
input information is sensitive data. We assure a healthy
e-payment system to meet all the weaknesses of current
systems.

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