A Security Tunnel for Conducting Mobile Business over the Tcp Protocol

This paper discusses security issues in the Mobile Business area with emphasis on the significance of mobile commerce and provides a framework to address and analyse common security problems of mBusiness services and applications. We propose a new model to address efficiently some security problems in mobile environments, which rescinds Gateway/Proxy intermediates and establishes a secure end-to-end communication between mobile users and service providers over the TCP protocol. In this context, an application prototype is developed in J2ME, which implements and demonstrates the proposed model.