TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gyimah,Ibrahim Mubarick
AU  - Oluwajana,Dokun Iwalewa
TI  - SECURITY PASSWORD HASHING IN ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
PY  - 2023///
KW  - Electronic commerce
KW  - Dissertations, Academic
KW  - Computers
KW  - Access control
KW  - Passwords
N1  - Thesis (MSc) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Information Technologies Department; Includes bibliography (sheets 69-79)
N2  - ABSTRACT
Electronic commerce has over the years been one of the most adopted and accepted 
worldwide electronic transactions by the many populace. The traditional way of 
always going to the shop to buy goods and carrying them back home has always been 
one problem to the other. Those with the means in carrying the goods have it easy but 
on the other hand, the number of individuals without means outnumbers the other 
group. Moreover, it has also improved the cashless transaction system for curbing the 
carrying of bulk money around. However, the introduction of electronic commerce has 
not only improved the lives of its users but has also arisen a variety of security 
challenges that impact negatively on its users’ privacy and reduce their confidence in 
performing electronic transactions due to the low level of security in user password 
hashing.
To curtail these issues, different kinds of hashing algorithms have been proposed over 
the years to ensure user private information is protected as they are mostly used on 
various electronic transaction platforms. Some of the commonly known hash 
algorithms developed over the years are MD5, SHA1, SHA2, SHA3, SHA192, 
BCRYPT, SCRYPT, ARGON2, etc. With the number of proposed hashing algorithms, 
the research proposes the use of a hybrid combination of ARGON2i and ARGON2d 
in user password hashing.
Keywords: Electronic Commerce, Hash Functions, Password, Security
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