Design of Mobile-PKI for using mobile phones in various applications

Author

Ray, Sangram ; Biswas, G.P.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Sch. of Mines, Dhanbad, India

fYear

2011

fDate

21-23 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

297

Lastpage

302

Abstract

Today´s era witnesses the increasing demand of mobile phones and its applications. In Mobile PKI, it is difficult to apply the WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) in mobile environment since wireless internet has lower transmission bandwidth and mobile phone has fundamental limitations like small screen size, low computing power, low memory capacity, etc. To eradicate these problems, development of Mobile-PKI is needed. This paper presents a Mobile Home Agent based Mobile-PKI supporting mobile phones to provide similar security level as the wired PKI. A Mobile Home Agent and Registration Authority have been considered to minimize the work load of mobile phone and CA (Certificate Authority) respectively. Discussion regarding how the proposed Mobile-PKI provides similar security level as the wired PKI and comparisons with existing schemes have been provided.

Keywords

Internet; authorisation; mobile agents; mobile computing; mobile handsets; protocols; certificate authority; mobile home agent; mobile phones; mobile-PKI design; public key infrastructure; registration authority; transmission bandwidth; wired PKI security level; wireless Internet; wireless application protocol; Authentication; Communication system security; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Public key; Wireless communication; Certificate Authority (CA); Certificate Management Protocol (CMP); Mobile Home Agent (MHA); Public Key Infrastructure (PKI); Registration Authority (RA); Wireless Certificate Management Protocol (WCMP);

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Recent Trends in Information Systems (ReTIS), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kolkata

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0790-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ReTIS.2011.6146885

Filename

6146885