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A Bootstrapping Server Function (BSF) is an intermediary element in Cellular networks which provides application-independent functions for mutual authentication of user equipment and servers unknown to each other and for 'bootstrapping' the exchange of secret session keys afterwards. This allows the use of additional services like Mobile TV and PKI, which need authentication and secured communication. Wikipedia →

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Data Communications and NetworkingBehrouz A. Forouzan, Catherine Ann Coombs · 2000
TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
RESTful Java with JAXRS 20Bill Burke · 2013

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