Author:
Thomas Zefferer
Affiliation:
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Keyword(s):
Mobile Signature Solution, Mobile Devices, Assessment, Architecture, Security, Usability.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
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Artificial Intelligence
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Government
;
Internet Technology
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
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Mobile APIs and Services
;
Mobile Information Systems
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Security and Privacy
Abstract:
In the European Union, transactional e-services from security-critical domains such as e-government or e-banking
often require users to create legally binding electronic signatures. Currently available solutions, which
enable users to create such signatures, have usually been designed for classical end-user devices such as
desktop computers or laptops and cannot be applied on mobile end-user devices. This complicates a use
of transactional e-services on mobile devices and excludes a growing number of users, who prefer mobile
access to services. To address this problem, this paper develops a mobile signature solution that can be
applied on mobile end-user devices. Possible architectures for this solution are systematically derived from
a generic model first. The best alternative is subsequently determined by means of systematic assessments.
This finally yields a technology-agnostic mobile signature solution that can be used as a basis for concrete
implementations. By keeping
the proposed solution on a rather abstract level, its validity is assured, even
if available mobile technologies and the current state of the art change. This way, the proposed solution
represents a sustainable basis for future signature solutions and paves the way for transactional e-services on
mobile end-user devices.
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