Mobile Application for Secured Message Transmission using MD5 Algorithm

K Kalaiselvi¹, B Hanuviyas², R P Pravin³, T Renuka⁴, R Saranya⁵

¹Faculty CSE, ^2,3,4,5Final Year B.E CSE, Karpagam Institute of Technology, Coimbatore.

Abstract

Short Message Service (SMS) has become one of the high speed and rugged communication channels to transmit the information across the worldwide. Sometimes, we send the confidential information like password, pass code, banking details and domestic identity to our friends, family members and service providers via SMS. SMS messages are dispatched as plaintext among mobile user (MS) and the SMS centre (SMSC), using wireless network. SMS contents are stored in the systems of the network operators and can be read by their personnel. Since, the SMS is sent as plaintext, thus network operators can easily retrieve the content of SMS during the conveyance at SMSC. So the long-established SMS service put forward by various mobile operators surprisingly does not furnish information security of the message being conveyed over the network. In order to secure such confidential information, it is forcefully required to contribute secure communication between end users. The above requirements can be accomplished by proposing a protocol called Cipher-SMS which provides end-to-end security during the dispatch of SMS over the network. The Cipher-SMS protocol achieved by using cryptographic algorithms of AES and MD5, The Cipher-SMS protocol intercepts the SMS information from various attacks including SMS disclosure, over the air (OTA) refinement, replay attack, man-in-the-middle attack, and impersonation attack. Proposed SMS based framework offers a low-bandwidth, reliable, efficient and cost effective solution for SMS Transmission. Cipher-SMS is the first protocol wholly based on the symmetric key cryptography of AES and hash cryptography of MD5 for cellular network.

Keywords

• SMS-Short Message Service, AES-Advanced Encryption System, MD5-Message Digest Algorithm, MS-Mobile Station

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K Kalaiselvi, B Hanuviyas, R P Pravin, T Renuka, R Saranya. "Mobile Application for Secured Message Transmission using MD5 Algorithm" International Conference on Systems, Science, Control, Communication, Engineering and Technology (2016): 286-290. Print.