Current Topics on PKI Technologies for Mobile Commerce -Activities on Authentication WG, MC Committee, mITF

摘要

Aiming at the penetration mobile commerce into mass market, its services are to be secure and usable. Pubic Key Infrastructure (PKI) is considered as one of the promising technology for the provision of such secure mobile services. Therefore, its deployment is highly expected. For the purpose to realize mobile commerce based on PKI, however, it is further necessary to verify its applicability from the viewpoint of mobile environments and real payment models. Accordingly, this paper clarifies and discusses the issues when applying PKI to mobile commerce, those are mainly from the result of the study on Authentication WG, MC Committee of mITF.