Mobile messaging using public key infrastructure: m-PKI
Nor Badrul Anuar, Lai Ngan Kuen, Omar Zakaria, Abdullah Gani · Annual Conference on Computers · 2008
Presently, mobile handheld device has successfully replaced traditional telephone to become the most popular wireless communication tools. Mobile Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) fulfill almost all the user requirements as an effective communication and information delivering service. Since SMS/MMS become so popular on daily communication, there is a demand to communicate or exchange confidential information in a secure environment. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) is a proven solution, which using pairing of key, for secure communication encryption. In this paper, M -PKI is introduced to provide PKI encryption to the mobile SMS and MMS.