Brokat has introduced server-based software which uses digital signature technology to encrypt and authenticate communications with mobile devices.
Brokat says its M-Trust Server software enables online merchants and banks, to use mobile digital signatures to securely authenticate transactions over wireless networks.
"The mobile digital signature is yet another example of Brokat's 'Service Like Air' philosophy," says Peter Ummenhofer, director of product marketing for Brokat Server Technologies division. "The end users initiate 'signing' with the mobile digital signature from their mobile phone or PDA. In either case, he or she receives electronic verification of the transaction and can digitally confirm that it is correct. As a result, high-value and non-repudiable transactions can be securely placed over any channel - Internet, call centre, kiosk, wireless, or point-of-sale."
Unlike other solutions that depend on the rollout of public key infrastructure onto the mobile phone handset, M-Trust Server works with existing mobile devices, says Ummenhofer, as well as the latest models being introduced this year.
The M-Trust Server supports the protocol established by the international M-Sign Consortium. This protocol is based on Brokat's mobile digital signature process, which is patented in Germany.