Secure M-Commerce with WPKI

The huge success of mobile telephone is about to transform ebusiness and the Internet. As a Personal Trusted Device PTD, the mobile phone, will be able to handle secure transactions in a wireless world. The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) suite enables secure e-commerce services and applications. This paper present an overview of the PKI and the WAP environments and their relation to the Internet, the security standards specified for WAP and how WPKI standards and technologies have been adapted to ensure security for M-Commerce requirements. This paper also addresses some shortcomings of WAP and shows how these problems may be overcome, recent developments and changes, as well as future impacts of this new development for operators, manufacturers and users.