Passport One provides security for mobile devices

date: February 22, 2002

Diversinet Corp., a leading provider of m-commerce security infrastructure solutions, has announced the release of its Passport One next-generation digital identity solution.

Passport One represents an extension of Diversinet's leading wireless solutions for today and tomorrow's security needs. It allows enterprises, governments, and wireless operators to provide a single digital identity interface for employees, citizens, and customers across different types of mobile devices and smart cards. Passport One generates digital identity certificates using standard profiles building on Diversinet's unique thin client solution set. These certificates enable digital signatures for user authorization, authentication of the wireless application and mobile device, and confidentiality through two-way encrypted sessions.

Diversinet's wireless security technology is optimized for mainstream resource-constrained devices such as mobile phones, two-way pagers, and personal digital assistants. The Passport product suite effectively manages the user's digital certificate identity within mobile devices that are constrained by network bandwidth, memory, computational power and battery life. Passport One expands this functionality to include additional constrained devices such as smart cards, 2.5 and 3G wireless devices that require a high-level of security, while maintaining privacy of the user.

"Diversinet's core competency is in developing security solutions for constrained devices," said Hussam Mahgoub, Vice President Products, Diversinet Corp. "Passport One is ideal for a mass market implementation of PKI security in constrained environments as the solution can manage multiple devices from a single infrastructure, has bulk registration capabilities, and is highly scaleable."

Governments and enterprises are adopting smart ID cards in place of traditional paper-based identification as the cards are more durable, harder to forge, and can be used for multiple applications. A PKI-based smart card system can use PKI technology to tie together government or enterprise databases with an individual's personal information providing a single consistent interface to authenticate individuals. Diversinet's Passport One represents the optimal PKI-enabled smart card solution conserving the greatest amount of critical memory space for mobile commerce and security related applications.

"By 2006, the smart card market will have experienced dramatic change. The future holds sophisticated, high-security cards, with an extended degree of personalization and multi-application capabilities," Datamonitor report: New Smart Card Opportunities - One card: a million uses?, April 2001.

Passport One is currently being piloted.

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