Plugging into the Online Database and Playing Secure Mobile Commerce

Abstract

Mobile commerce is one of emerging inter-discipline technology which integrates the network protocol, multimodal sensation, storage management, and other research areas. It intends to make paperless applications for both convenience and ecology on the mobile devices -- including those used for ticketing, coupons, loyalty rewards, payments, etc. By the innate limitations of the physical properties, mobile device -- particularly the handheld mobile device -- must make their best tradeoffs among the available hardware resources to reach their dedicated specifications. However, one of the recent progresses in the new technologies of the Internet, cloud computing, is capable of appearing ubiquitously with mobile devices and intends to outstretch its various applications by the devices. The next generation of mobile devices will use wireless broadband access and human-computer interaction technologies which support cloud services and interface designs respectively advances to allow remote plug-and-play with web 2.0 applications that is suitable for mobile commerce in which this chapter emphasizes. Besides, for sustainable development of a mobile commerce solution, workable but not securable is absolutely not enough. Therefore, a secure information retrieval and reveal protocol for mobile commerce based on modified RSA digital signature is also proposed and demonstrated.