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

Well WTLS stands for Wireless Transport Layer Security.

WTLS is based on SSL (Secure Socket Layer....a protocol developed
by netscape to conduct secure transmission over Internet)...

... WTLS allows a secure (privacy,authenticaton,data
integrity) communication. There is also support for safeguarding the
server against denial-of-service attacks (it tries to minimize such
attacks).....

Sandeep

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 twalker@ixl.com wrote:

> 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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> Sandeep Jain                    Office: MTH 405
> Graduate Student                Phone : 765-494-5006
> Computer Science Department     URL: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/jain/
> Purdue University
> West Lafayette, IN 47907-1398.
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> 
>

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