Telcos

In regards to the exploding use of mobile Internet, the Tecommunication Operators need to secure electronic transactions and ensure a confidential usage of the WEB applications more than ever.

They are now facing a big challenge : how to provide both security and ease-of-use to their users ?

> The Ethertrust solution is ensuring a Strong Mutual Authentication directly from a portable secure element (SIM card for 3G network) to the Web server. Hence, it bypass any security risks of a security management, fully or partly, ensured by a terminal.

> The Ethertrust technology is uploaded over the internet into a secure element like the customer’s SIM card,

> A secure connection is established on the IP network between the secure element/mobile device and a service platform,

> I addition to the storage of all certificates and cryptographic keys in the secure element, the originality of the Ethertrust Solution is based upon the fact that the complete SSL processing is ensured by the secure element without any help of the mobile terminal

For the MNOs
This solution enables the mobile operators to offer new secured services :
> Content download services
> Secure web browsing & upload of data (e.g. for M2M services)

For the End User
The Ethertrust Solution ensures a very user-friendly way (no login, no password) to allow the End User to access very securely, by strong mutual authentication, to any protected web services.
Thus, thanks to the use of the portable Secure Element (or SIM card) The End User is transparently authenticated and is granted of a secure usage of the service.

Technical
The Ethertrust solution is fully compliant with the existing WEB infrastructure (SSL/TLS Protocol)