A Secure Text Messaging Protocol

Gary Belvin

Paper 2014/036 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2014/036 ↗

A Secure Text Messaging Protocol

Gary Belvin

Abstract

Mobile text messages are currently vulnerable to inspection, modification, and replay by network operators and those that influence network operators. This paper describes a set of protocols that provide end-to-end message confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity over the high latency, low bandwidth, Short Message Service provided by GSM networks.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2014-01-13: last updated; 2014-01-13: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2014/036
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/036,
      author = {Gary Belvin},
      title = {A Secure Text Messaging Protocol},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/036},
      year = {2014},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/036}
}