Build A Framework to Optimize M-Commerce Security

Abstract

Mobile commerce (m-commerce) is providing commercial services that are accessible by using mobile devices, typically a mobile phone. The main advantages of such services are their high availability, independence of physical location and time. Yet the move to create a wireless version of internet means a new set of problems. As with the existing fixed internet, the biggest problem is security. Despite the fact that operators are announcing or rolling out Wireless Applications Protocols (WAP), I-mode and java-based information, the platforms have gaping security holes. This research aims to present some suggestions to improve m-commerce security and limit the m-commerce drawbacks. These suggestions related to the following functional: End-to-End Transport Layer Security by Java 2 micro edition/ mobile information device profile (J2ME/MIDP). Using J2ME/MIDP to mobile communication overcome the security challenges faced with WAP technology, but securing the XML messages transferred between the mobile phone and the server would give high level of integrity for the data itself not for the physical connection.