The term security lacks meaning until one has defined what is to be secured and for whom. Likewise, security is difficult to comprehend without a potential threat. Mobile phones for third-generation mobile systems (3G) have several security stakeholders for which the mobile platform must provide security services. Moreover, the potential threats may differ from stakeholder to stakeholder.
misbehaving security mechanisms. The second class of stakeholders, mobile network operators, relies on phone network identification mechanisms (related to billing capability) and networkrelated software.
Criminal-minded users or hostile software must not be allowed to circumvent these mechanisms.
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This Masters thesis focuses on ways through which sensitive user’s data can be further protected (especially short message services (SMS)) against threat by malicious and criminally-minded users. Equally, all other areas of Information and System security are equally researched by the project.
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Mobile phones are equally used in several sensitive and mission critical environment e.g. financial, military, educational e.t.c. where integrity and privacy of data need not be compromised.
Therefore it is highly important that reasonable technological security measures are taken to ensure the privacy of user’s phone calls and text messages (and data), as well to prevent unauthorized use of the service being run by the mobile phone applications.
<span>cryptographic API. Therefore, a software program will be written in JAVA programming language to improve the security features of GSM data where integrity of user’s data are critical and need not be compromised. This Master’s project will focus on developing a software application that will protect user’s Short Message Service (SMS) data only.
1. This application can only be implemented on Java-enabled phone which supports Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 2.0.
<span>software application in their mobile phones in order to implement the solution and send and read encrypted and secure SMS.
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Chapter 4, System Design and Development: This chapter handles the full program design for the development of the security program to protect user’s GSM SMS data using JAVA programming language and NETBEANS 6.8 Integrated Development
Chapter 5, System Implementation: This chapter handles full testing, running, deployment and implementation of the two programs written in Chapter 4 above to use to strengthen the existing GSM algorithms and to provide simulation exercise for the existing GSM security algorithms. The JAVA MIDlet secure SMS program is deployed using Cable to PC as well as Over the Air (OTA) communication running on compatible