Abstract: Architecture and method for constructing Digital Chains of Trust for e-commerce comprising integrated, universal modeling, design and evaluation framework for building DCTs for e-Business Processes that provides creation, management, and preservation of legally admissible evidence of electronic events in transactions by employing object-oriented “Trust Building Blocks” having pre-defined functions, inter-connectivity protocols, real-time feedback features, decision support options, and trust standards. It employs an end-to-end design, operation, and audit frame-work: to identify the risk drivers; to establish the necessary trust standards to acceptably mitigate each risk; to ensure the legal enforceability of electronic acts; to generate forensic evidence; and to provide audit metrics for operational compliance.