Mobile Open API: An Introduction
This paper highlights the need for a change in how security is approached on the connected mobile device. It focuses on the need to create security (and security policy) at the development stage, and highlights the telecoms industry’s unique position of already having a solution to the problem.
It discusses why ‘buy in’ is needed from the application development and operating systems communities, and introduces the SIMalliance’s new Open Mobile API workgroup whose task it is to connect the application, operating system and the operator with the Secure Element found in billions of connected devices right across the world.
Open Mobile API Specification V1The SIMalliance Open Mobile API Specification describes how a mobile application running on an open smartphone operating system can access a SIM/USIM or any Secure Element.
Release 1.2 of the specification contains the handling of a transport layer that gives applications the possibility to transmit APDUs to Secure Elements.