A lightweight IPsec adaptation for small devices in IP-based mobile networks

This paper addresses the problem of securely communicating between a resource limited mobile device and a remote content provider server in mobile commerce applications over IP-based mobile networks. We present a communication protocol, based on the IPsec protocol, that provides confidentiality and authentication of the packets exchanged. We propose to use a key distribution center (KDC), which can be easily deployed in the target network, to...