Ajaxo Extends Nokia's WAP Server to Achieve End-to-End Secured Transactions Over the Internet.Business Editors/High-tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2000 Ajaxo, a leading wireless application service provider, continues to demonstrate its lead in the delivery of secure wireless transaction based applications by announcing today that it has successfully extended Nokia's secure WAP (1) (Wireless Access Point) See access point. (2) (Wireless Application Protocol) A standard for providing cellular phones, pagers and other handheld devices with secure access to e-mail and text-based Web pages. server to provide end-to-end security over the Internet. Mobile devices such as the new generation of WAP enabled phones allow users to interact with Internet services using WAP protocol. Nokia provides a secure server that uses WTLS (Wireless Transport Layer Security) The security services in the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). WTLS is based on TLS, the landline version that is widely used on the Internet. layer to ensure safe transmission of WAP packets from mobile phones to WAP servers over GSM network. Nokia's secured WAP solution encourages enterprises to host and own the secured WAP server. GSM providers become pure carriers delivering wireless data packets from mobile devices to the WAP server. The implementation of WTLS protocol between the mobile device and the destination WAP server ensures data security between the mobile device and the WAP server. Ajaxo's Smart Agent further extends data security to bring the data packets to the destination host. "Enterprise wireless solutions are mostly served by means of HTTP servers over the Internet. Nokia WAP Server 1.0 does not support HTTPS (1) (HyperText Transport Protocol Secure) The protocol for accessing a secure Web server. Using HTTPS in the URL instead of HTTP directs the message to a secure port number rather than the default Web port number of 80. to the origin server," said Sing Koo, President of Ajaxo Inc. "Other solutions, such as the secured WAP gateway provided by Phone.com, provide the conversion of WTLS to TLS (1) (Transport Layer Security) A security protocol from the IETF that is based on the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) 3.0 protocol developed by Netscape. TLS uses digital certificates to authenticate the user as well as authenticate the network (in a wireless at the carrier's location before sending the message to the enterprise servers via Internet. The security risk for this encryption conversion is small, yet exists, since the enterprise has no control over the carrier's security measures. Ajaxo's Smart Agent adopted a 'cascaded coupling configuration' which converts the request using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) The leading security protocol on the Internet. Developed by Netscape, SSL is widely used to do two things: to validate the identity of a Web site and to create an encrypted connection for sending credit card and other personal data. (Secured Socket Layer) protocol before sending it to a secured enterprise host, thus eliminating the security risk. This feature comes just in time to pave the way for many enterprises in Asia contemplating on going wireless with their secured transactions Business dealings that grant a creditor a right in property owned or held by a debtor to assure the payment of a debt or the performance of some obligation. A secured transaction is a transaction that is founded on a security agreement. over the GSM network using Nokia WAP servers." The Nokia WAP Server and Ajaxo's Smart Agent will typically be installed behind the corporation's firewall and thus achieving an additional degree of security. About Ajaxo Ajaxo Inc. is a technology company specializing in the delivery of wireless data services and systems to enterprises and e-businesses. Its Ajaxo Smart Agent Integrated Development Software enables corporations to leverage their existing Web investment in bring secure real-time data communication and transactions to the wireless handheld devices. For more details on our wireless technology, please refer to the following web pages: http HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. ://www.ajaxo.com/ Note to Editors: Nokia is a registered trademark of Nokia Corporation. Phone.com is a registered trademark of Phone.com |
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