Mobile Signatures
Promoting the use of the mobile phone to generate and utilise digital signatures to provide legally binding and ultimately secured transactions.
Mobile Signatures is an enabling technology that carries identity information (qualified digital certificates) over a GSM network and provides that information to any authorised application. Mobile signatures are digital signatures that are created using private key data that is stored on the UICC; so it can be used to provide legally binding and ultimately secured transactions. The technology is not restricted to mobile services but can also be used for non-mobile services as long as a connection with the mobile signature platform is in place.
Mobile Signatures enables services both on Internet and GSM networks that were previously impossible to perform remotely since they require either personal presence and/or a wet signature. It not only provides additional levels of security but also increases customers’ ARPU with new messaging traffic, gives mobile operators the potential to partner with external service providers.
For more information contact mobilesignatures@gsm.org.
