NTT DoCoMo, Intel and IBM released a new security specification called "Trusted Mobile Platform." The specification can help make advanced mobile-commerce services such as electronic tickets and e-wallets for online purchases more secure and help protect against viruses and other software attacks.

Trusted Mobile Platform has defined a set of hardware and software components that can be constructed to build devices offering different levels of security.

These components function together to limit the potential damage from malicious applications and to enable a rich set of security services. In addition, Trusted Mobile Platform has defined a protocol that allows the security state of a device to be shared with other devices in the network, enabling device level trust to be extended into the larger network.

Each company has contributed unique and valuable skills to the collaboration. NTT DoCoMo brings the requirements for platform integrity and security based on its knowledge of wireless networks, Intel brings its knowledge of silicon designs and expertise in architecting wireless devices, and IBM is contributing its vast experience in business security and pervasive computing.

The specification is publicly available at http://www.trusted-mobile.org for industry review.

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