News Archive 2001

07.03.2001
Durlacher released today their UMTS report for investment purposes
Valimo was mentioned as a critical company for developing solutions for successful m-commerce

March 7, 2001 - Valimo was mentioned as one of the clear leaders in mobile PKI needed to secure futures m-commerce transactions. Here is a small quote from the report:

"End-to-end security platforms will be a major area of development. Many services require secure transactions such as mobile retailing and mobile payment. Several organisations promoting standards for secure transactions have emerged, including Radicchio, mSign and Mo-Sign. The first two organisations, Radicchio and mSign, include many leading innovations in the platform-level security market – they joined forces in February 2001. Among the most important companies currently are Sonera SmartTrust, Brokat and Baltimore Technologies, each offering end-to-end security technologies.

PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) encoding methods are the future of the mobile security solutions market. PKI requires a key mechanism consisting of a public key and a private key used for encoding and decoding any piece of data. The mobile industry is currently aiming to store private keys on subscriber Wireless Identification Modules (WIM) cards of mobile devices. Valimo Wireless is offering open PKI-based authentication system software for mobile and wireless networks.

We believe that PKI will become the security solution of choice for many operators but it requires heavy investments and new SIM Cards for all customers, which would presents a challenge in itself. It is needed to make m-commerce happen. Investment opportunities will arise only with solutions that are compatible with the standards developed by Radicchio/mSign and Mo-Sign."

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