January 2006
Beginner
1120 pages
72h 31m
English
book
Handbook of Information Security, Volume 1, Key Concepts, Infrastructure, Standards, and Protocols
by Hossein Bidgoli
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Security and the Wireless Application Protocol
Lillian N. Cassel and Cynthia Pandolfo, Villanova University
The Wireless Application Protocol
The Current Situation
Mobile Access to the World Wide Web and Other Data Resources
Standards
Security
WAP Identity Modules
WML Script Crypto API
WAP Transport Layer Security
Certificates
WAP Gateway
WAP Security Gap
Transport Layer e2e
WAP Public Key Infrastructure Looking Ahead
Expectations for Mobile Computing
The Role of the Wireless Application Protocol
Glossary
Cross References
References
Further Reading
THE WIRELESS APPLICATION PROTOCOL
The wireless application protocol (WAP) is a collection of protocol standards whose purpose is to enable communication between handheld wireless devices and Internet-based service providers. Mobile devices vary greatly in capability. Some are compact, but fully powerful, computers. These are not the subjects of this chapter. WAP exists to accommodate the limitations of very small devices, generally mobile phones. Limited amounts of memory, both RAM and ROM, impact the performance characteristics of these devices. Applications and utilities, including security elements, must be optimized for the restricted environment. The service providers include Web servers providing content formatted especially for small wireless devices and other service providers who target the wireless devices exclusively.
This set of standards builds on existing standards, reusing or modifying where necessary to address the special ...
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