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A Server-Based Signature Solution for Mobile Devices

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MoMM '14: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

Pages 175 - 184

https://doi.org/10.1145/2684103.2684142

Published: 08 December 2014 Publication History

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Electronic signatures are frequently used in security-critical fields of application such as e-government or e-banking. During the past years, especially server-based signature solutions have gained popularity, as they solve usability problems of traditional client-based approaches. Unfortunately, server-based signature solutions and their underlying security concepts are usually tailored to classical end-user devices such as desktop PCs or laptops. Therefore, these solutions cannot be used on mobile end-user devices such as smartphones. This excludes an increasing number of potential users, who prefer mobile end-user devices to access e-government and e-banking applications. To solve this problem, we propose a new server-based signature solution that is tailored to the special characteristics of mobile devices. The proposed solution is evaluated by means of a concrete prototype implementation. This prototype proves the feasibility of the proposed solution and demonstrates its capability to leverage the use of electronic signature based applications on mobile end-user devices.

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MoMM '14: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia

December 2014

464 pages

ISBN:9781450330084

DOI:10.1145/2684103

General Chair:
Shyue-Liang Leon Wang
National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Yu-Hui Tao
National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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Liming Chen
University of Ulster, UK
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Chung-Nan Lee
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

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https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13040757
Czerny RKollmann CPodgorelec BPrunster BZefferer T(2023)Towards a Mobile-First Cross-Border eID FrameworkProceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research10.1145/3598469.3598562(526-535)Online publication date: 11-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3598469.3598562
Monzón FTupia MBruzza M(2020)Security Versus Usability in E-Government: Insights from the LiteratureDevelopments and Advances in Defense and Security10.1007/978-981-15-4875-8_3(29-42)Online publication date: 9-May-2020
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4875-8_3
Theuermann KTauber ALenz T(2019)Mobile-Only Solution for Server-Based Qualified Electronic SignaturesICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)10.1109/ICC.2019.8762076(1-7)Online publication date: May-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2019.8762076

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