Encryption of Short Message Service in Global System for Mobile Communications

DOI

10.2991/icimm-15.2015.221How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Encryption; GSM; SMS; MD5; Message capture

Abstract

Nowadays more and more companies are using cellphone message to verify users’ identities. However, because there is no data encryption in global system for mobile communications (GSM) short message service (SMS), the being sent message is easily to be listened during transmission and your identity could be replaced by somebody else.[1] In this paper, we use an open source project osmocomBB and the corresponding peripheral devices, i.e. Moto C118 and CP2120, to capture the experimental GSM SMS messages. We analyze the GSM packets with a data-packet analyzing tool, which is called wireshark. Then, in order to accomplish the transmission safety, the SMS message is encrypted by using the message digest algorithm (MD5). The proposed application of this algorithm in GSM SMS is demonstrated by our experiments.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Gao Yu
AU  - Wei Yin
AU  - Ze Xu
AU  - Donglin Wang
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Encryption of Short Message Service in Global System for Mobile Communications
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Information Engineering for Mechanics and Materials
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1230
EP  - 1237
SN  - 2352-5401
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icimm-15.2015.221
DO  - 10.2991/icimm-15.2015.221
ID  - Yu2015/07
ER  -