Single sign-on process allowing a mobile user with a mobile phone or with
a laptop to remote-access a remote server, comprising the steps of: (1)
sending a first authenticator over a first communication layer to a first
intermediate equipment between said mobile equipment and said remote
server, (2) verifying in said first intermediate equipment said first
authenticator sent by said mobile equipment, (3) if said first
authenticator is accepted by said first intermediate equipment,
completing the communication layer between said mobile equipment and said
intermediate equipment, (4) repeating steps (1) to (3) with a plurality
of successive intermediate equipment and over a plurality of successive
communication layers, until a communication has been completed at the
last requested communication layer between said mobile equipment and said
remote server, wherein at least a plurality of said authenticators are
furnished by a smart-card in said mobile equipment.