Study on Mobile Commerce Authentication System

The rapid development in mobile commerce not only offers opportunities for business, but also makes higher security demands in the process of e-commerce transactions. It´s true that authentication is the key point to ensure mobile commerce safety. This paper analyzes the existing problems in current mobile commerce authentication and proposes a strategy to a unified mobile commerce authentication based on mobile devices. In order to support multiple application service access, this strategy plans to combine and improve the characteristics of application based on mobile environments, various authentication technologies applied in networks, the existing authentication contracts and many other factors, in the form of a uniform interface. What´s more, this strategy supports to select the appropriate authentication process according to different customers´ needs.