Sunday, May 11, 2008

Article - Joint digital signatures for M-payments

Article: A new signature Scheme: joint signature
Li-Sha He, Ning Zhang
March 2004 SAC '04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Publisher: ACM


This article discusses the use of digital signatures and the way its changing electronic business and its importance in M-commerce and mobile payments.
The article presents a novel joint signature scheme that enables mobile user to securely and efficiently instruct their network operator (cellular provider) for m-payment related actions.
The example given in the article is suppose a mobile customer wants to purchase to buy train tickets through his/her mobile phone then they can instruct the network provider to pay for the ticket and they in turn can later bill the end user in their monthly phone bill.
This method of an intermediary 3rd party (network provider) signature authentication would reduce fraudulent M-commerce transactions and offers lighter computational load on end mobile units.

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