HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS

Short Messaging Service has become vital part of every individuals life. Like human, businesses have also gained benefit from SMS by providing business alerts, transaction services, resource management etc over it using Automated SMS. With exchange of confidential and mission critical information ov...

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Main Author: Khan, Muhammad Murad
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my-utm-ep.370332017-06-29T06:48:48Z HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS 2013-08 Khan, Muhammad Murad TK5101-6720 Telecommunication Short Messaging Service has become vital part of every individuals life. Like human, businesses have also gained benefit from SMS by providing business alerts, transaction services, resource management etc over it using Automated SMS. With exchange of confidential and mission critical information over SMS, security of SMS has become a big concern. Many researchers provided solutions to secure content of message using encryption but key exchange of encryption algorithm cannot be secured. Man In The Middle can observe key exchange messages and can setup MITM attack between communication. Security vulnerability inside this operation is that, secret key and encrypted messages are shared over same channel i.e. SMS. This project propose a PKI web system that distributes encryption keys for encryption of SMS over HTTPS, making MITM attack near to impossible on Secure SMS. 2013-08 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37033/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37033/5/MuhammadMuradKhanMFSKSM2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:70083?site_name=Restricted Repository masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language English
topic TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
spellingShingle TK5101-6720 Telecommunication
Khan, Muhammad Murad
HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
description Short Messaging Service has become vital part of every individuals life. Like human, businesses have also gained benefit from SMS by providing business alerts, transaction services, resource management etc over it using Automated SMS. With exchange of confidential and mission critical information over SMS, security of SMS has become a big concern. Many researchers provided solutions to secure content of message using encryption but key exchange of encryption algorithm cannot be secured. Man In The Middle can observe key exchange messages and can setup MITM attack between communication. Security vulnerability inside this operation is that, secret key and encrypted messages are shared over same channel i.e. SMS. This project propose a PKI web system that distributes encryption keys for encryption of SMS over HTTPS, making MITM attack near to impossible on Secure SMS.
format Thesis
qualification_level Master's degree
author Khan, Muhammad Murad
author_facet Khan, Muhammad Murad
author_sort Khan, Muhammad Murad
title HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
title_short HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
title_full HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
title_fullStr HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
title_full_unstemmed HTTPS approach to resist MITM attack in secure SMS
title_sort https approach to resist mitm attack in secure sms
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department Faculty of Computing
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/37033/5/MuhammadMuradKhanMFSKSM2013.pdf
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