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Wireless Transport Layer Security

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- Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS) is the security level for Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) applications. Based on Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.0 (a security layer used in the Internet, equivalent to Secure Socket Layer 3.1), WTLS was developed to address the problematic issues surrounding mobile network devices - such as limited processing power and memory capacity, and low bandwidth - and to provide adequate authentication, data integrity, and privacy protection mechanisms.

Wireless transactions, such as those between a user and their bank, require stringent authentication and encryption to ensure security to protect the communication from attack during data transmission. Because mobile networks do not provide end-to-end security, TLS had to be modified to address the special needs of wireless users. Designed to support datagrams in a high latency, low bandwidth environment, WTLS provides an optimized handshake through dynamic key refreshing, which allows encryption keys to be regularly updated during a secure session.

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CONTRIBUTORS:	Benjamin McCartney
LAST UPDATED:	28 May 2007

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More resources from around the web:

-	Helsinki University of Technology offers a paper, "Security in the WTLS."
-	The WAP Forum offers a description of the "WTLS Internal Architecture."
-	Baltimore Technologies offers a white paper about "Wireless e-Security."
-	SearchSecurity.com offers links to information related to infrastructure and network security.

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