Krishna Prakash and Balachandra, MIT, India

The radical evolution of computers and advancement of technology in the area of hardware (smaller size, weight, low power consumption and cost, high performance) and communications has introduced the notion of mobile computing. Mobile Commerce is an evolving area of e-commerce, where users can interact with service providers through a mobile and wireless network using mobile device for information retrieval and transaction processing. Mobile wireless market is increasing by leaps and bounds. The quality and speeds available in the mobile environment must match the fixed networks if the convergence of the mobile wireless and fixed communication network is to happen in the real sense. The challenge for mobile network lie in providing very large footprint of mobile services with high speed and security. Online transactions using mobile devices must ensure high security for user credentials and it should not be possible for misuse. The paper discusses issues related to M-Commerce security.

PKI, WPKI, Certificates, M-Commerce