Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) – A way to fix the broken Internet

The Internet is broken. There have been many attempts to fix it, but they are all complex and very difficult to implement and none of them answer the fundamental questions of what is wrong with it. The first basic flaw is the very nature of the Internet Protocol address. It is treated as both a name and an address to deliver the information to its end-to-end destination. In addition, the security of the protocol is dependent on that address. The second major flaw is the inability of the Internet protocols to address mobility with fast and secure handoff. The Secure Mobile Architecture (SMA) fundamentally addresses these flaws in the very nature of the Internet Protocols. It does this by treating the IP layer as an insecure transport layer. It requires four elements to effect this transformation of the Internet. It can be integrated into existing Intranets. It can function easily in the namespace of an Internet service provider (ISP), an enterprise, or governments. The rest of this chapter will take you through the architecture and its elements.