Send Us Your Feedback idening adoption of handheld devices and the pending legal status of digital signatures are spurring a greater need for tight handheld security. Last week, wireless security vendor Certicom Corp. unveiled its MobileTrust Certificate Authority. Daniel Zucker, chief technology officer for ePocrates Inc. in San Carlos, Calif., says he evaluated other certificate options and Certicom's MobileTrust with ECC proved the fastest.
Analysts say the tools are needed, but obstacles exist.
But widespread implementation of wireless PKI faces growing pains, says Terry Nozick, VP of market research at Mobile Insights. The same challenges facing PKI adoption within wired networks, such as difficulty with multivendor PKI interoperability, will surface in the wireless arena. But I don't see a smooth ride ahead for anybody.