Volume 2 - Issue 1 – 2
Towards secure mobile P2P applications using JXME
- Marc Domingo-Prieto
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Carrer Roc Boronat, 117, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
mdomingopr@uoc.edu
- Joan Arnedo-Moreno
Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Carrer Roc Boronat, 117, 08018 Barcelona, Spain
jarnedo@uoc.edu
- Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti
Escola T`ecnica Superior d’Enginyeria, Universitat Aut ́onoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, Spain.
jherrera@deic.uab.cat
- Josep Prieto-Blazquez
Estudis d’Inform`atica, Multim`edia i Telecomunicaci ́o, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Rambla del Poblenou, 156, 08018, Barcelona, Spain.
jprieto@uoc.edu
Keywords: peer-to-peer, security, JXME, JXTA, distributed systems, Java, J2ME
Abstract
Mobile devices have become ubiquitous, allowing the integration of new information from a large
range of devices. However, the development of new applications requires a powerful framework
which simplifies their construction. JXME is the JXTA implementation for mobile devices using
J2ME, its main value being its simplicity when creating peer-to-peer (P2P) applications on limited
devices. On that regard, an issue that is becoming very important in the recent times is being able
to provide a security baseline to such applications. This paper analyzes the current state of security
in JXME and proposes a simple security mechanism in order to protect JXME applications against a
broad range of vulnerabilities.