Seamless Access to Home Content

Abstract

This thesis documents the mobile phone authentication in the data world and evaluate potential methods for seamless authentication. Telenors Mobil's authentication tool and Wap Gateway have been configured to provide the mobile phone's user id (MSISDN) to a Wap Server for authentication of the user. The thesis resultet in a demo which uses the wap functionality on the mobile phone to access content on a wap server. Automatic authentication based on the user information provided by the wap gateway are then used to get access to services (home content like pictures, music, and film) on the wep server without typing in a username and password. A prototype for access to a picture gallery is described, and a prototype for access to a simple Internet Bank has been implemented to show the potetial of seamless access.