Great Minds Think Different: my good friend and colleague Giuseppe “Gippa” Paternó (last, but not least, visiting researcher on security and networking at the Centre for Telecommunication Value-Chain Research, Trinity College Dublin) has published his latest paper, “Enhanced SIM (ESIM): a proposal for mobile security“.
Abstract—The Enhanced SIM wish to address primarily the need of an user to be uniquely identified within corporate and Internet resources. By leveraging a public key infrastructure of a mobile operator, web sites and corporation can federate with the operator to authenticate the end user by reusing the technology that is already available. As a side effect, a number of VAS applications -such as bank services- can take advantage of this feature to secure financial transactions over mobile devices.
Comments and suggestions are always welcome!
