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In mobile devices individuals carry around, information electronic appliances in houses, automatic venders on street corners or wireless LAN services, and automobiles equipped with information functions, the information needed to be protected is not just information of copyrighted contents such as music, movies, and books.
Functions are needed for personal authentification and preventing interpolation so that important data such as individual IDs, passwords, customer databases, e-cash, and financial confidential information will be protected.
This is because settlement is often necessary when purchasing contents.
Memory cards normally equipped with the public key cryptosystem are listed in the table.
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Personal Data Protection |
Corporate Data Protection |
Copyrighted Data Protection |
Mobile Commerce |
| Data to be protected |
ID,Password,Asset management information |
Customer database, Employee support data |
Music, Movie, News, Language learning materials, Encyclopedia, book |
Electronic money, Financial data |
| Relationship between user and protected data[Trusted relationship?] |
Data of user[YES] |
Data of belonged corporate[YES] |
Data of content holder[NO] |
Data of financial institute[NO] |
| Security functions to be implemented |
User authentication, Concealment of stored data |
User authentication, Secure connection, Concealment of stored data |
Card authentication, Secure connection, Copyright protection, Alternation protection |
User authentication, Secure connection, Alternation protection |
| SecureMMC |
PIN-SMMC
PIN:Personal Identification Number |
CP-SMMC
CP:Content Protection
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MOPASS
Mobile Passport
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The MOPASS Card is a memory card equipped with application programs such as MULTOS, which is a multi-application operations system for cards, in compliance with the extended standards for mobile commerce for flash memory cards that was introduced by five companies: Hitachi, Ltd, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, Toshiba Corporation, Ingentix GmbH & Co./Ltd., and Sundisk Corporation.
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