A smart card-based secure software distribution scheme for mobile application market

Nowadays, with the rapid development of the wireless mobile networks and the related technologies, the range of interpersonal collaboration and communication has been expanded to almost all corners of the world. And the applications in the mobile application markets greatly enrich the functions of mobile devices in wireless mobile networks. In general, the applications with collaborative functions require the secure measures of high level to protect their important information. In this paper, we analyze the ideal role of the mobile application markets and propose a smart card-based secure software distribution scheme for mobile application market which provides perfect forward secrecy for distributed applications, resists several kinds of attacks on customers´ password and protects the installed applications by a practical secure method based on smart card.