Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
Short message service (SMS) is a very popular and easy to use communications technology for mobile phone devices. Originally, this service was not designed to transmit secured data, so the security was not an important issue during its design. Yet today, it is sometimes used to exchange sensitive information between communicating parties. This paper proposes an alternative solution that provides a peer-to-peer SMS security that guarantees provision of confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation security services. A hybrid cryptographic scheme has been used which combines the NTRU and AES-Rijndael algorithms to achieve more robust functionality. For implementation, a mobile information device application (MIDlet) has been developed in J2ME to introduce a required security services for SMS. The developed application is tested on real equipment such as a Nokia N70. It is able to achieve all the required cryptographic operations completely on the users' mobile phone in less than one second for each operation, and thus the mobile phone performance still remains effective. © 2010 Academic Journals.
Keywords
Authentication Confidentiality Integrity and non-repudiation NTRU Peer to peer Public key cryptography SMS security
Divisions
fsktm
Publication Title
Scientific Research and Essays
Volume
5
Issue
22
Additional Information
Cited By (since 1996): 2 Export Date: 1 November 2012 Source: Scopus Language of Original Document: English Correspondence Address: Al-bakri, S. H.; Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; email: Sameerhassn2002@yahoo