Secure SMS with Identity Based Cryptography in Mobile Telecommunication Networks
V Maruthi Prasad · 2011
Short Message Service (SMS) and multimedia message service (MMS) has grown in popularity over the years and it has become a common way of communication. SMS is usually used to transport unclassified information, but with the rise of mobile commerce it has become a popular tool for transmitting sensitive information between the business and its clients. By default SMS does not guarantee confidentiality and integrity to the message content. There is no end-to-end security (including authentication, and non-repudiation) in these services. Therefore SMS is not totally secure and reliable. This hinders service providers to provide some services that require communication of high-level security. This paper proposes a new solution for a secure messaging channel using identity-based cryptography. The advantage of this solution is that it does not require a large storage on mobile terminal side, which is especially essential for user-to-user communication.