An efficient Iris authentication using chaos theory-based cryptography for e-commerce transactions

E-commerce is an outcome of globalization and technology outbreak of 21st century. Increasingly, more products and services are sold over Internet; hence, there is a growing need for a combination of legislation and technical solutions to globally secure customer privacy. Credit card fraud is one of the crimes especially when it is used for web-based transaction. In this paper, a technical solution using Iris authentication technique is proposed for protecting identity theft in e-commerce transactions because Iris patterns are unique to an individual. Further, this research proposes authentication of e-commerce users by using Iris biometric technique as one of the most secure biometric algorithms. Therefore, this research proposes a web-based architecture which uses a combination of Image Processing and secure transmission of customers' Iris templates along with credit card details for decreasing credit card frauds over Internet.