RE: E-commerce using WAP (...WTLS...)

WTLS - Wireless Tranfer Layer Security

WTLS is the WAP's wireless implmentation of SSL.

Todd Walker
Authoring Lead, iXL Inc.
twalker@ixl.com

-----Original Message-----
From: dstruve@zibex.com [mailto:dstruve@zibex.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 9:14 AM
To: jain@cs.purdue.edu; www-mobile@w3.org
Subject: RE: E-commerce using WAP (...WTLS...)


What are WTLs

I know of WTL that are windows template library but that probably is not it.

excuse the ignorance.

Daniel Struve
Software Engineer
Zibex-Houston


-----Original Message-----
From: www-mobile-request@w3.org [mailto:www-mobile-request@w3.org]On
Behalf Of jain@cs.purdue.edu
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 5:35 AM
To: www-mobile@w3.org
Cc: Sandeep Jain
Subject: E-commerce using WAP (...WTLS...)


Hi all...

I am developing a secure WAP application for e-commerce.
I am facing a problem.....I dont know if any of the available
WAP terminal simulators....have an implementaion of WTLS...they need not
in a sense as they are only simulators.

My questions are:
1. Is there any vendor (Motorola,Ericsson,Phone.com,Nokia....etc.)
   having a secure implementation of WAP (i.e. WTLS) on the WAP
   enabled cell-phones?
2. Is anybody currently implementing WTLS?
3. Are there any e-commerce application being used currently
   anywhere?

I dont see how one can develop e-commerce applications using WAP
without making sure that the data on the wireless channel being
"overheard". We can have hardware encryption...but that is vendor
and bearer technology specific.

Thanks


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