Solution to an attack on digital signature in SMS security

Author

Saxena, Navrati ; Chaudhari, N.S. ; Thomas, Julian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Indore, Indore, India

fYear

2013

fDate

28-30 April 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Short Message Service (SMS) is one of the mobile phone services widely used by the public worldwide. One of the main issues during the communication is information security and privacy. Digital Signature algorithms can be applied with the SMS cipher to prevent the message information from the repudiation attack. There are various existing algorithms for digital signature like RSA, DSA and ECDSA. Out of these, ECDSA has been proved and found the best algorithm in terms of efficiency and cryptanalysis. But ECDSA has some drawbacks also, and because of that some authors have proposed variant algorithms of ECDSA. In this paper, we propose solutions to an attack on digital signature that has been found on a variant of ECDSA. At the end of this paper, conclusion with the suitable solution approach with its security analysis is summarized.

Keywords

cellular radio; cryptography; data privacy; digital signatures; electronic messaging; mobile radio; telecommunication security; telecommunication services; ECDSA; RSA; SMS cipher; SMS security; cryptanalysis; digital signature algorithm; digital signature attack; information security; message information; mobile phone service; privacy; repudiation attack; security analysis; short message service; Algorithm design and analysis; Digital signatures; Elliptic curve cryptography; GSM; Mobile communication; ECDSA; GSM; SMS; digital signature; repudiation attack;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO), 2013 5th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hammamet

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5812-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSAO.2013.6552596

Filename

6552596