Wireless Public key Infrastructure for Mobile Phones

TL;DR

This paper discusses the development of a Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (WPKI) tailored for mobile phones to ensure secure wireless transactions, addressing limitations of traditional PKI in resource-constrained devices.

Contribution

It introduces the concept of WPKI and presents an experimental setup to adapt public key infrastructure for mobile phone security needs.

Findings

WPKI can provide security comparable to wired PKI for mobile devices.

Experimental setup demonstrates feasibility of WPKI implementation.

Highlights challenges and solutions for deploying PKI in wireless environments.

Abstract

Mobile devices play an important role in the wireless network environment for providing different services over internet. The business transactions over wireless electronic devices are not secure and hence the messages are prone to be intercepted and modified by an intruder. So, devices supporting wireless internet must be guaranteed at the same level of security as the wired network. PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) used in the wired environment is not suitable for wireless environment because of the less powerful processor and small memory. This arises a need for the development of a Wireless Public Key Infrastructure (WPKI) that provides the similar security level as the wired PKI suitable for mobile phone. In this paper, a discussion of public key infrastructure and an experimental set up for Wireless Public key Infrastructure for mobile phones are made.