IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SMS-BASED SERVICES USING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES - Towards SMS-based Processing of Transactional m-Government Services

Thomas Zefferer, Arne Tauber, Bernd Zwattendorfer

2012

Abstract

SMS is still one of the most popular mobile communication technologies. Simplicity, cost efficiency, and low bandwidth requirements account for the SMS technology’s continuing success. Besides the private sector, also public sector organisations aim to take advantage of SMS technology’s current popularity. In numerous countries all over the world, governments and public administrations already offer citizens SMS based m-Government services. However, most of these services are rather simple and do not include security enhancing mechanisms such as cryptographic methods. This renders the use of SMS based approaches for complex transactional m-Government services with higher security requirements difficult. We tackle this issue by proposing the use of electronic signatures in SMS based services. The technical feasibility of our approach is demonstrated by means of a prototypical application. This application allows citizens to generate, electronically sign, and deliver electronic documents by sending well-defined SMS messages. The proposed method’s capability to meet given security requirements of transactional m-Government services is assessed in the course of a detailed security discussion.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zefferer T., Tauber A. and Zwattendorfer B. (2012). IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SMS-BASED SERVICES USING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES - Towards SMS-based Processing of Transactional m-Government Services . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-08-2, pages 743-752. DOI: 10.5220/0003909207430752

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist12,
author={Thomas Zefferer and Arne Tauber and Bernd Zwattendorfer},
title={IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SMS-BASED SERVICES USING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES - Towards SMS-based Processing of Transactional m-Government Services},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2012},
pages={743-752},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003909207430752},
isbn={978-989-8565-08-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - IMPROVING THE SECURITY OF SMS-BASED SERVICES USING ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES - Towards SMS-based Processing of Transactional m-Government Services
SN - 978-989-8565-08-2
AU - Zefferer T.
AU - Tauber A.
AU - Zwattendorfer B.
PY - 2012
SP - 743
EP - 752
DO - 10.5220/0003909207430752