Method for associating an application with a subscriber identity module

摘要

The invention relates to a method for associating an application with a subscriber identity module (8) in an apparatus, especially a mobile phone terminal adapted to run applications (5) within the framework of a virtual machine (4). The invention also relates to an apparatus implementing the method. The invention solves the problem of enabling or disabling of applications (5) based on information contained on a subscriber identity module (8) without requiring root certificates stored on the SIM. In the invention the applications are instead linked to other domain identity information contained on the SIM card. In one mode, the application contains an identification directly linking it to information on the SIM. In another mode, hashes of roots (9) are stored in the phone, but a specific hash must be validated by matching it with information contained on the SIM (8).