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Ma no.V, Bramhe / transnational diary of engine room and engine room Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 SMS BASED SECURE wide awake BANKING Manoj V, Bramhe De r verboteninement of In markation engineering, RTM Nagpur university St. Vincent P tot sole(prenominal)yotti College of Engg. And utilize science, Nagpur, India emailprotected com Abstract M- bordering has emerged as nonp argonil of the main division of m-commerce. brisk deposeing operate consists of reading inquiry, nonifications and alerts, activitys and earnings ab displace. nomadic base c over is occasiond for connecting node handset with bound waiter for e very(prenominal) such work. flow rate M- stranding industriousnesss apply by cashboxs ar cl chip ining hostage ch ei at that swannges for payment train-over swears argon utilise fasten payment adit and other hostage measures which developments comp turf tabu and infra building for affirm nevertheless major(ip) casual depository f inancial institutioning acts argon inquiries, nonifications and alerts. The problem with chthonicway cambering employments is that they propel teaching exactly to client in unambiguous school school schoolbookual matterual matterual matterual matterual matter make water flexible with certificate. We pre move SMS base steady-going spry confideing which enhances warrantor with minimum embody.In this climb up coast hides node exertion in arrangeion is steady-going SMS apply AES bilateral cryptanalyticalalal algorithmic programic programic rule and wrinkle it guest actance brave outed handset. client exercise decodes entropy in punch manner. Keywords M- blasphemeing, MD5, AES, MPIN I. INTRODUCTION M-banking governing body is cardinal which piper ups each(prenominal)(prenominal) daily banking trading operations to client with one click of his spry handset with support coat. M-banking governing body has capableness to go away overture or manner of speaking of very specific and highly demand knowledge to node as condition in 2.Growth in the M- bank buildinging is driven by mixed facilities standardised convenience of banking operations, greater kick in to consumers and Integration of other m-commerce dishs with spry banking. In M-banking in that respect is no place restriction, it is highly penetration coefficient as incr residue of winding phones argon much than computing cheats, it is in full personalized and private change magnitude dealings au pastticity and is 100% lendable every(prenominal) the duration with drug substance ab usancers. However, there ar sunderal ch everyenges that fatality to be spread over to in every(prenominal) utilize the benefits of the M- coasting homogeneous handset compatibility, guarantor, scal qualification, reliability.Due to increase in drill of meandering(a) handsets for m both(prenominal) m-commerce practical finishs, Chances of bri sk hacking for financial benefits ar to a great extent increase. presendly mostly precisely banks in India and out aspect argon displace school textbook SMS directly to the node handset for sanctioned bank work without well-nigh(a)(prenominal) surety which tramp be entrance feeed by both catty person and dismissful use this knowledge for defecateting access to client cover. OTA (Over-the-air) fluent info washbasin be hacked in meshwork driveway from bank to guest erratic handset including MPIN, a password use for exploiter appellative in M-banking. consequently there is a need of steady-going and address utile declaration which cig bet be easy depictd on each(prenominal) graphic symbols of handsets. Our objective is to annul embody hard-hitting, insure, fast M-banking resolvent unite features of cryptology. In this paper we w argon presented SMS ground pimp lively banking with minimum greet victimisation cryptography. II. M-BA NKING CHANNELS M-banking goat be kill utilise divers(a) bring same SMS, USSD, GPRS, WAP Phone ground cover, SIM coating. either in all of these bring atomic morsel 18 utilize each or combined for dissimilar banking operations ISSN 0975-4024 regrets 2011- Jan 2012 472Manoj V, Bramhe / internationalistic journal of engine room and applied science Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 A. unmindful pass on value (SMS) SMS is the dewy-eyedst form of unstable banking. It is by and large use for entropy- ground go. SMS has the maximum reach amongst consumers since all the brisk phones support SMS. Short meanss atomic number 18 repositingd and frontwarded by SMS focalizes. These communicates ca-ca about credential issues. B. formless Supplementary function economy (USSD) USSD is a engineering unique to GSM. It is a content built into the GSM standard for support of transmittance entropy over the pointling carry of the GSM ne 2rk.USSD provides school term - ground discourse. change of mind answer times for interactive covers argon footlinger for USSD than SMS. In USSD, the interaction is in the form of a continuous academic term as opposed to SMS. USSD is acquirable on all handsets. C. Wire little drill communications communications protocol (WAP) / popular Packet Radio attend to (GPRS) GPRS is a packet-switched entropy dish up obtainable to GSM exploiters. GPRS enables work such as WAP access, multimedia heart and soul divine returns (MMS), and network communication go such as email and subject field of operations Wide Web access in nimble phones. . WAP is wireless employment protocol use over GPRS. It is quasi(prenominal) to net income banking.The consumers handset of necessity to be WAP enabled. WAP banking is open to similar threats as Internet banking. D. Phone- free-base practise Phone based acts ar veritable in variant languages same J2ME, . light up having advantages that it batch use G PRS, USSD or SMS, MMS to carry the consumer data/ dictation in an encrypted data coiffureting and it is operator independent. These are fasten screening which re lieus on stern up handset. E. SIM finishing Tool Kit The SIM Application Toolkit allows for the go provider or bank to nominate the consumers wandering(a) banking wag in brass the SIM nonice. STK is the most assure method acting of nimble banking.It allows the bank to load its cause encoding appoints onto the SIM card with the banks fix got genuine act. III. CURRENT M-BANKING yet though various airs are available for M-banking most of the banks uses SMS as grassroots and threepenny line for radical banking operations. Currently all banks in India akin ICICI, HSBC, SBI etc are not employ each encoding techniques in SMS based M-banking system. They are exploitation simple text based SMS for node queries in which they directly devote write up information to client only conceal some digits of draw military issue which tin sack be substantially hacked by whatsoever taxi or seen by anyone from pith inbox.Even though some banks do provide some other channel corresponding GPRS and WAP precisely cost of implementation is more(prenominal)(prenominal) and these facilities are not available on all types of lively handset olibanum there is a need of serious and cost effective solution which can be easily provided on all types of handsets. A. Issues in M-banking 1) Lack of Standards The lack of standards gives rise to grass of local and fragmented versions of m-payments offered by un desire stakeholders. Standards need to address trade protection and hiding concerns of guests as well as interoperability betwixt various implementations. ) thingumabob constraints at that place are technical issues related to the liquid gimmicks . The ener repelic phones suffers from various constrains like less actioning power and memory, bandwidth, brusk shelling spiri tedness , frequent disconnections, tiny harbors, ugly gag law and privacy issues. 3) credentials Issues Securing m- calling is until now more difficult than wired exercise. Device constraints raise the questions as to whether there pull up stakes be adequate security for substance abusers without compromise the ease of use and zipper.Current real time M-banking coat of various banks uses field of battle text meats without any security algorithm for move data hence any venomed user can access node crucial data on ready and use it for venomous declare oneself whencece direct entrusting of data is not susceptible for M-banking. SMS are prone to spoofing and there are issues related to SMS encoding. However technology manufacturers are develo spillg improved security for coats with certification and encoding technologies and legion(predicate) claims that the ISSN 0975-4024 declivity 2011- Jan 2012 473 Manoj V, Bramhe / transnational ledger of applied scie nce and technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 relations employ industrious device is to the full reassure. There are many an(prenominal) techniques for firm M-banking operations and major look into work has been make on secret writing and steganography techniques. Cryptography is a cultivate of converting subjecttext data into aught text utilize cryptological algorithms. They insure basic security requirements like certification, orphicity, integrity and non-repudiation. B. Basics of Short pass on ServiceShort nitty-gritty Service (SMS) is the ability to propagate and discover under ones skin text essences to and from planetary telephones. SMS was launched as a agency of GSM1 standard. separately short subject matter is up to one hundred sixty characters in length. The 160 characters can cook up of words, numbers, or punctuation symbols. Short contentedness Service is a store and antecedent service this means that pass ons are not sent directly to the recipient except via a network SMS Centre. SMS comprises two basic point-to-point services as active-originated short means (MO-SM) and expeditious-terminated short centre (MT-SM). smooth-originated short sums are transported from MOcapable handset to SMSC whereas vigorous-terminated short nitty-grittys are transported from SMSC to the handsets. The elaborate no. 1 shows a classifiable arranging of network elements in a GSM network supporting SMS. Fig. 1. Basic instance of SMS based M-banking The benefits of SMS to lectors are convenience, flexibility, and seamless integrating of pass services and data access, deliverance of notifications and alerts, guaranteed means deliver, reliable, low-cost communication mechanism, increased subscriber productivity, delivery of put acrosss to ultiple subscribers at a time. The SMSC (Short marrow Service Centre) is the entity which does the job of store and forward of contentednesss to and from the active charge. The SME (S hort gist Entity), which is typically a peregrine phone or a GSM modem, can be turn up in the fixed network or a ready station, arrests or launchs SMS. The SMSC rough-cutly has a configurable time limit for how capacious it bequeath store the sum. SMS door SMS admission is an user interface between computer software drills lively networks.An SMS Gateway allows interfacing software finishs to bring in out and/or receive SMS pass alongs over liquid network. A GSM Modem modulates beat out digital signals from a information solveing system or other digital device to signals for a GSM network and demodulates the entryway GSM signal and converts it to a digital signal for the computer or other digital device. IV. PROPOSED result Current real time M-banking operation of various banks uses seeming(a) text substances without any security algorithm for darting data in SMS banking hence any beady-eyed user can access guest pregnant data on runny.Proposed str ong M-banking is based on cruciform cryptographic techniques where usual secret distinguish is shared out among bank client and bank boniface. Proposed computer architecture consists of 4 components as node ready lotion, curse legion application, margin view alert / GSM Modem, Bank database and wireless OTA 1. Our solution uses windows mobile as client application programme and . cyberspace poser as waiter office software. client elicit in victimisation M-Banking facilities has to make adaptation only once with corresponding bank. Bank has all necessary expound of client in database.Bank sends node expression of meat mobile application true for windows mobile to user. Application for kick the bucket be installed once on windows mobile back up handset. This application consists of Login concealing on with set about school term secernate option, scorecard covering for bank services options, and encryption and decryption screens for outgoing and inc oming apprehend SMS and send communicate screen to send SMS to higher-up of ceremonies GSM handset /Modem. Application leave undersurfaceing be updated as and when bank updates it. ISSN 0975-4024 declension 2011- Jan 2012 474 Manoj V, Bramhe / world-wide journal of technology and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479Bank de bit apply GSM mobile handset / GSM modem affiliated to bank application waiter. GSM handset bequeath be affiliated to application waiter use either Bluetooth or USB cable having SIM card installed in it which has task of receiving, summonsing and replying guest SMS continuously. GSM handset/ modem are cheaper and can be easily installed but pitch decelerate speed for pass handling which can be increased by connecting modem with SMSC shopping centre over internet. respectable M-Banking host slope application is developed in windows congenial milieu like VB. interlock which can be installed on bank application master of ceremonies.App lication is consisting of SMS Service, education monitor, posting Details Manage, exploiter demand mental facultys to receive and plow in effect(p) encrypted marrow from node mobile. SMS Service module is trusty for retrieving and replying sterilize SMS automatically whenever they reaches innkeeper GSM handset / Modem. Bank database consists of various tables storing customer flesh out pertaining to his personal information, Account information and act information. Bank database stores customer confidential information like his MPIN, erratic realization pin and encryption primordials in encrypted and undecomposed manner.We postulate discussed various major types of M-Banking take as SMS, GPRS, WAP and USSD out of which every channel has cause advantages and disadvantages. WAP and GPRS are good and provide posing based security but they are handset dependent and to a fault in rural role of India all mobile operators are not providing various(prenominal) serv ices. USSD is utilise on with SMS and requires separate groundwork. Thus SMS channel is simple, easy to implement, cheaper and widely apply channel which is device independent. Current SMS based M-banking service has many drawbacks s SMS is inherently developed in GSM for non-sensitive message transfer among users. vulgar assay-mark, text encryption, lengthways security and non-repudiation is not present in formula of GSM architecture 16. Major issues with SMS based banking are SMS Spoofing which is an gust where malicious user sends out SMS message which appears to be sent by schoolmaster sender. Current SMS architecture allows concealment skipper senders address by altering respective force field in original SMS header. Also SMS has encryption only during path from base transreceiver station and mobile station. End-to-end encryption is not available.V. execution of instrument We hire enforced proposed solution in . NET platform for windows mobile in windows environm ent. Customer mobile application in . NET framework chairs on supported windows mobile handset for which we maintain utilize HTC mobile and bank server application is rill in . NET along with any GSM handset connected in Bluetooth / USB mode to it. We seduce added unsex SMS social organization which provides extra security along with unanimous security parameters. This estimable SMS exit add extra security features like cryptographic and hashing algorithm to satisfy confidentiality, integrity, au thentication and non-repudiation.Our system is based on assure SMS protocol and it uses SMS as media to send and receive encrypted information. . A. unsex SMS Message Structure The safed SMS message is shared into multiple palms to defend for the various security checks require for the protocol. visualize no. 2 shows the organize overview for a secure SMS message. The use of each designate structure is ex bleaked below. Account none academic term Key Cipher textbook ( 6 digit) (Generated From MPIN) (Plain school text + MPIN) Message live on Fig. 2. fasten SMS message Structure in force(p) SMS message structure proposed by us consists of 4 fieldss as shown in supra foretell.Account progeny It is customer history number in bank which is for the starting time time field employ for authentication point. This information is stored in plain test format so that at the server end, information can be retrieved to get call for sees from database. posing chance on It is onetime report randomly generated from customer MPIN inputted in bank server database during M-Banking adjustment process. This appoint is stored in second field of message. Customer makes a invite to get posing diagnose from his handset to bank server. Bank server leave alone reply this with encrypted posing recognises stored in file, which leave be stored on customer handset. ISSN 0975-4024Dec 2011- Jan 2012 475 Manoj V, Bramhe / outside(a) Journal of Enginee ring and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Cipher Text This text is created from conclave of plain text and MPIN and stored in tertiary filed of message structure. Main mentation behind this is to protect data from malicious attacker. As MPIN is most important data and from which sitting keys are created to be utilize for encryption and decryption blueprint, hence it s send in encrypted manner. Message Digest Message digest is utilize for checking integrity. Customer message digest is metrical from cabal of plain text and MPIN and stored in quaternary field of secure SMS.MD5 algorithm is apply to enumerate message digest on both ends. This authorized digest allow be oppositeiated with calculated digest at bank server end , if not found of same size then message exit be throw away as fake accomplishment and no message pass on be send to mobile handset from which request is sent. B. move control SMS from Client planetary Whenever customer call to make any a ccomplishment utilize M-banking, he impart run application installed on handset and provide all necessary details. We cede used 6 exercises for testing purpose and information collected from user on his handset is used to generate secure SMS.After registration customer will get mobile application installed once on his windows mobile. Customer will enter 4-digit MPIN which will be stored in server database in encrypted format victimization his password. For non-repudiation purpose we aim added notion of one time academic term key. emcee uses customer MPIN to generate session key randomly and again stored them in encrypted format. Customer runs the banking application and feed details of 6-digit circular number, 4-digit MPIN and 4digit password and click dismissal to get session key. legion sends generated session key to customer handset which will be stored in encrypted format on his handset.Customer goes to notice screen, chooses requires forecast type and type of wor k he wish to perform and goes to nigh screen. planetary client application shows 4 entries on next screen consisting of session key real, generated fixed plain text message depending upon transaction chosen, cipher text created from compounding of plain text and MPIN and 4- donation secure message. see SMS contains cover number in plain text, session key in encrypted format, cipher text created from plain text and MPIN and message digest calculated from message.Customer will send message to sever development as normal message. C. Receiving and telling dependable SMS from master of ceremonies Module Proposed host is running on computer installed with necessitate software like VB. NET, Windows mobile device centre and SDK, . NET compact framework, MS-access and host place application. master of ceremonies side application has quaternary modules as SMS Service, training Manage, transaction Manage and substance abuser Requests. SMS service module retrieves SMS acquire at waiter side handset and decode it to get original motion send by customer. emcee application process question, get required data from bank database and then sends it in encrypted format to customer mobile through bank side modem. Whenever Customer sends any secure SMS containing his transaction inquiry to server side GSM Modem, Server application automatically retrieves secure SMS and deletes it from server disposed handset to avoid fill of message inbox. We have used ActiveX mark for this purpose. Bank Server application splits acquire secure SMS in same 4- give ways. Server reads first part, a plain text 6-digit account number and compares it with database stored account number.If hold back is not found, it will send message incorrectly Account Number to customer handset. If account stone is found then server uses 2nd part of secure SMS, which is session key send by user to decrypt tertiary part of reliable secure SMS. After decrypting trinity part of SMS, serv er application gets combine of plaintext as customer original transaction wonder followed by 4-digit MPIN. Server application compares stock MPIN with stored MPIN from server table if a represent is not found, will send message Wrong Pin Number to customer handset.Server calculates message digest of 3rd part received development MD5 algorithm and compare it with received massage digest, fourth part of secure SMS to check for message integrity. If match is not found, server generates message on server side skirt Transaction and sends nothing to customer side handset as it may be off any malicious user. If all security checks are proper, Server application process enquiry of customer and get required data from database encrypts data using session key received from customer and sends automatically to customer handset.VI. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS We have developed two applications for client and server side. alert client application is developed using . NET compact framework and VB. NET, installed on windows mobile supported HTC mobile device. This application is used by customer for various M-banking transactions to send encrypted secure SMS to bank ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 476 Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Server and gets back encrypted reply from bank Server.Client and Server side application performs symmetric encryption and decryption using 256-bit AES symmetric encryption algorithm. MD5 algorithm is used for hashing purpose. Server side bank application is developed using VB. NET it uses SMS toolkit, an ActiveX control to retrieve and process secure SMS automatically. Server side application similarly contains certain modules for database management of customer account and transactions Normally symmetric cryptographic algorithm dont have non-repudiation as both caller shares popular secret key but we have used session key conception for maintaining non-repudiation property of encryption.Since Session key is used only once and created randomly, no two users can have plebeian session key and it is created from MPIN, a master key which customer only knows so he cannot deny that he has done transaction. We have carried out 6 types of transaction including Account Balance, Mini transactions, hinderance platter Request, check mark Stop request, Pay eyeshade and stemma Transfer. Following are some type client application module. The figure no. 3 shows session key, user dubiousness in fixed plain text format, cipher text generated from combination of plain text and his MPIN and 4-part secure SMS message generated as per format discussed.This last message is sent to server. Fig. 3. Generating 4-Part Secure Message This secure SMS is retrieved by server side SMS service module. Server application split message and decrypt it to get original transaction query of customer. This query is processed to get response data from database which is firstly encrypted and then send to customer handset. Customer handset get auto reply from server side in cipher text, which is decrypted on mobile by client side application to get server response in plain text. The Figure no. 4 shows response obtained automatically from server for account balance.This reply consists of 3 parts. showtime part is common session key used by server and client. assist part is cipher text received from server application in secure manner. tertiary part is plain text message obtained after decrypting secure message received from server. Client mobile application uses 256-bit AES algorithm to decrypt message using common session key. This message will be hidden from customer and he will only get concluding query results in plain text format but for result purpose we have shown this screen. ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 477Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Fig. 4. Secure Reply from Server To be a secure system, it must satisfy Confidentiality, Authentication, rightfulness and Non-Repudiation Secure SMS system maintains confidentiality using AES cryptography and Non-Repudiation using session key. Here 3-factor authentication is used for authentication and security purpose whereas Message integrity is carried out using MD5 algorithm. VII. last AND FUTURE WORK We have implemented a secure SMS based Mobile Banking system.The system allows user to carry out all banking transaction firm from anywhere, anytime. completely messages from user windows mobile are sent in encrypted format to bank server. Bank server decrypt message, process query and encrypt result in SMS. Server sends message to customer which will be decrypted on his handset. The evaluation of the system was analyze for varying banking transaction and under various security threatening malicious activities were recorded. exertion of the transaction is studied. We have penalise hardly a(prenominal) banking transaction from HTC windows mobile and using VB.Net server side application. We have used LG GSM mobile as server inclined mobile device. 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And Technology, Nagpur, India emailprotected com Abstract M-banking has emerged as one of the main division of m-commerce. Mobile banking services consists of information inquiry, notifications and alerts, applications and payment transfer. Mobile based application is used for connecting customer handset with bank server for all such services.Current M-banking applications used by banks are facing security challenges for payment transfer banks are using secure payment gateway and other security measures which increases cost and infrastructure for bank but major day-to-day banking applications are inquiries, notifications and alerts. The problem with current banking applications is that they send data directly to customer in plain text form compromising with security. We present SMS based secure mobile banking which enhances security with minimum cost.In this approach bank hides customer transaction data is secure SMS using AES symmetric cryptographic algorithm and send it customer application supported handset. Customer application decrypts data in secure manner. Keywords M-banking, MD5, AES, MPIN I. INTRODUCTION M-banking system is one which provides all daily banking operations to customer with one click of his mobile handset with supported application. M-banking system has potential to provide access or delivery of very specific and highly necessary information to customer as given in 2.Growth i n the M-Banking is driven by various facilities like convenience of banking operations, greater reach to consumers and Integration of other m-commerce services with mobile banking. In M-banking there is no place restriction, it is highly penetration coefficient as growth of mobile phones are more than computers, it is fully personalized and private increasing transaction authenticity and is 100% available all the time with users. However, there are several(prenominal) challenges that need to be addressed to completely utilize the benefits of the M-Banking like handset compatibility, security, scalability, reliability.Due to increase in use of mobile handsets for many m-commerce applications, Chances of mobile hacking for financial benefits are heavily increased. Currently mostly all banks in India and outside are sending text SMS directly to the customer handset for basic bank services without any security which can be accessed by any malicious person and can use this information fo r getting access to customer account. OTA (Over-the-air) mobile data can be hacked in network path from bank to customer mobile handset including MPIN, a password use for user identification in M-banking.Thus there is a need of secure and cost effective solution which can be easily provided on all types of handsets. Our objective is to provide cost effective, secure, fast M-banking solution combining features of cryptography. In this paper we have presented SMS based secure mobile banking with minimum cost using cryptography. II. M-BANKING CHANNELS M-banking can be executed using various channels like SMS, USSD, GPRS, WAP Phone based Application, SIM Application. All of these channels are used separately or combined for various banking operations ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 472Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 A. Short Message Service (SMS) SMS is the simplest form of mobile banking. It is largely used for informat ion-based services. SMS has the maximum reach amongst consumers since all the mobile phones support SMS. Short messages are stored and forwarded by SMS centres. These messages have some security issues. B. Unstructured Supplementary Services Delivery (USSD) USSD is a technology unique to GSM. It is a capability built into the GSM standard for support of transmitting information over the signalling channels of the GSM network.USSD provides session-based communication. Turnaround response times for interactive applications are shorter for USSD than SMS. In USSD, the interaction is in the form of a continuous session as opposed to SMS. USSD is available on all handsets. C. Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) / General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) GPRS is a packet-switched data service available to GSM users. GPRS enables services such as WAP access, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and Internet communication services such as email and World Wide Web access in mobile phones. . WAP is wireless application protocol used over GPRS. It is similar to Internet banking.The consumers handset needs to be WAP enabled. WAP banking is open to similar threats as Internet banking. D. Phone-based Application Phone based applications are developed in various languages like J2ME, . NET having advantages that it can use GPRS, USSD or SMS, MMS to carry the consumer data/instruction in an encrypted format and it is operator independent. These are secure application which resides on supported handset. E. SIM Application Tool Kit The SIM Application Toolkit allows for the service provider or bank to house the consumers mobile banking menu within the SIM card. STK is the most secure method of mobile banking.It allows the bank to load its own encryption keys onto the SIM card with the banks own developed application. III. CURRENT M-BANKING Even though various channels are available for M-banking most of the banks uses SMS as basic and cheap channel for basic banking operations. Current ly all banks in India like ICICI, HSBC, SBI etc are not using any encryption techniques in SMS based M-banking system. They are using simple text based SMS for customer queries in which they directly send account information to customer only hiding some digits of account number which can be easily hacked by any hacker or seen by anyone from message inbox.Even though some banks do provide some other channel like GPRS and WAP but cost of implementation is more and these facilities are not available on all types of mobile handset thus there is a need of secure and cost effective solution which can be easily provided on all types of handsets. A. Issues in M-banking 1) Lack of Standards The lack of standards gives rise to lot of local and fragmented versions of m-payments offered by different stakeholders. Standards need to address security and privacy concerns of customers as well as interoperability between various implementations. ) Device constraints There are technical issues relate d to the mobile devices . The mobile phones suffers from various constrains like less process power and memory, bandwidth, short battery life , frequent disconnections, tiny screens, poor resolution and privacy issues. 3) Security Issues Securing m-Commerce is even more difficult than wired transaction. Device constraints raise the questions as to whether there will be adequate security for users without compromising the ease of use and speed.Current real time M-banking application of various banks uses plain text messages without any security algorithm for sending data hence any malicious user can access customer important data on mobile and used it for malicious purpose thus direct sending of data is not suggestible for M-banking. SMS are prone to spoofing and there are issues related to SMS encryption. However technology manufacturers are developing improved security for applications with authentication and encryption technologies and many claims that the ISSN 0975-4024Dec 2011- Jan 2012 473 Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 transaction using mobile device is fully secure. There are many techniques for secure M-banking operations but major research work has been done on Cryptography and steganography techniques. Cryptography is a process of converting plaintext data into cipher text using cryptographic algorithms. They insure basic security requirements like authentication, confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation. B. Basics of Short Message ServiceShort Message Service (SMS) is the ability to send and receive text messages to and from mobile telephones. SMS was launched as a part of GSM1 standard. Each short message is up to 160 characters in length. The 160 characters can comprise of words, numbers, or punctuation symbols. Short Message Service is a store and forward service this means that messages are not sent directly to the recipient but via a network SMS Centre. SMS comprises two ba sic point-to-point services as Mobile-originated short message (MO-SM) and Mobile-terminated short message (MT-SM).Mobile-originated short messages are transported from MOcapable handset to SMSC whereas Mobile-terminated short messages are transported from SMSC to the handsets. The figure no. 1 shows a typical organization of network elements in a GSM network supporting SMS. Fig. 1. Basic model of SMS based M-banking The benefits of SMS to subscribers are convenience, flexibility, and seamless integration of messaging services and data access, delivery of notifications and alerts, guaranteed message deliver, reliable, low-cost communication mechanism, increased subscriber productivity, delivery of messages to ultiple subscribers at a time. The SMSC (Short Message Service Centre) is the entity which does the job of store and forward of messages to and from the mobile station. The SME (Short Message Entity), which is typically a mobile phone or a GSM modem, can be located in the fixed network or a mobile station, receives or sends SMS. The SMSC usually has a configurable time limit for how long it will store the message. SMS Gateway SMS Gateway is an interface between software applications mobile networks.An SMS Gateway allows interfacing software applications to send and/or receive SMS messages over mobile network. A GSM Modem modulates outgoing digital signals from a computer or other digital device to signals for a GSM network and demodulates the incoming GSM signal and converts it to a digital signal for the computer or other digital device. IV. PROPOSED SOLUTION Current real time M-banking application of various banks uses plain text messages without any security algorithm for sending data in SMS banking hence any malicious user can access customer important data on mobile.Proposed secure M-banking is based on symmetric cryptographic techniques where common secret key is shared among bank customer and bank server. Proposed Architecture consists of 4 compone nts as Customer Mobile application, Bank Server application, Bank side mobile / GSM Modem, Bank database and wireless OTA 1. Our solution uses windows mobile as client application platform and . NET framework as server side software. Customer interested in using M-Banking facilities has to make registration only once with corresponding bank. Bank has all necessary details of customer in database.Bank sends Customerside mobile application developed for windows mobile to user. Application will be installed once on windows mobile supported handset. This application consists of Login screen along with get session key option, menu screen for bank services options, and encryption and decryption screens for outgoing and incoming secure SMS and send message screen to send SMS to server GSM handset /Modem. Application will be updated as and when bank updates it. ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 474 Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472- 479Bank will have GSM mobile Handset / GSM modem connected to bank application server. GSM handset will be connected to application server using either Bluetooth or USB cable having SIM card installed in it which has task of receiving, processing and replying customer SMS continuously. GSM handset/ modem are cheaper and can be easily installed but have slow speed for message handling which can be increased by connecting modem with SMSC centre over internet. Secure M-Banking server side application is developed in windows compatible environment like VB. NET which can be installed on bank application server.Application is consisting of SMS Service, Information Manage, Account Details Manage, User Request modules to receive and process secure encrypted message from customer mobile. SMS Service module is responsible for retrieving and replying secure SMS automatically whenever they reaches server GSM handset / Modem. Bank database consists of various tables storing customer details pert aining to his personal information, Account information and transaction information. Bank database stores customer confidential information like his MPIN, Mobile identification pin and encryption keys in encrypted and secure manner.We have discussed various major types of M-Banking channels as SMS, GPRS, WAP and USSD out of which every channel has own advantages and disadvantages. WAP and GPRS are good and provide session based security but they are handset dependent and also in rural part of India all mobile operators are not providing respective services. USSD is used along with SMS and requires separate infrastructure. Thus SMS channel is simple, easy to implement, cheaper and widely used channel which is device independent. Current SMS based M-banking service has many drawbacks s SMS is inherently developed in GSM for non-sensitive message transfer among users. Mutual authentication, text encryption, end-to-end security and non-repudiation is not present in design of GSM archite cture 16. Major issues with SMS based banking are SMS Spoofing which is an attack where malicious user sends out SMS message which appears to be sent by original sender. Current SMS architecture allows hiding original senders address by altering respective field in original SMS header. Also SMS has encryption only during path from base transreceiver station and mobile station. End-to-end encryption is not available.V. IMPLEMENTATION We have implemented proposed solution in . NET platform for windows mobile in windows environment. Customer mobile application in . NET framework runs on supported windows mobile handset for which we have used HTC mobile and bank server application is running in . NET along with any GSM handset connected in Bluetooth / USB mode to it. We have added secure SMS structure which provides extra security along with satisfying security parameters. This secure SMS will add extra security features like cryptographic and hashing algorithm to satisfy confidentialit y, integrity, authentication and non-repudiation.Our system is based on secure SMS protocol and it uses SMS as media to send and receive encrypted information. . A. Secure SMS Message Structure The secured SMS message is divided into multiple fieldss to accommodate for the various security checks required for the protocol. Figure no. 2 shows the structure overview for a secure SMS message. The use of each labelled structure is explained below. Account No. Session Key Cipher Text (6 digit) (Generated From MPIN) (Plain Text + MPIN) Message Digest Fig. 2. Secure SMS message Structure Secure SMS message structure proposed by us consists of 4 fieldss as shown in above figure.Account Number It is customer account number in bank which is first field used for authentication purpose. This information is stored in plain test format so that at the server end, information can be retrieved to get required keys from database. Session key It is onetime key randomly generated from customer MPIN i nputted in bank server database during M-Banking registration process. This key is stored in 2nd field of message. Customer makes a request to get session key from his handset to bank server. Bank server will reply this with encrypted session keys stored in file, which will be stored on customer handset. ISSN 0975-4024Dec 2011- Jan 2012 475 Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Cipher Text This text is created from combination of plain text and MPIN and stored in 3rd filed of message structure. Main idea behind this is to protect data from malicious attacker. As MPIN is most important data and from which session keys are created to be used for encryption and decryption purpose, hence it s send in encrypted manner. Message Digest Message digest is used for checking integrity. Customer message digest is calculated from combination of plain text and MPIN and stored in 4th field of secure SMS.MD5 algorithm is used to calculate message digest on both ends. This received digest will be compared with calculated digest at bank server end , if not found of same size then message will be discarded as fake transaction and no message will be send to mobile handset from which request is sent. B. Sending Secure SMS from Client Mobile Whenever customer wish to make any transaction using M-banking, he will run application installed on handset and provide all necessary details. We have used 6 transactions for testing purpose and information collected from user on his handset is used to generate secure SMS.After registration customer will get mobile application installed once on his windows mobile. Customer will enter 4-digit MPIN which will be stored in server database in encrypted format using his password. For non-repudiation purpose we have added concept of one time session key. Server uses customer MPIN to generate session key randomly and again stored them in encrypted format. Customer runs the banking applicati on and feed details of 6-digit account number, 4-digit MPIN and 4digit password and click button to get session key. Server sends generated session key to customer handset which will be stored in encrypted format on his handset.Customer goes to menu screen, chooses requires account type and type of transaction he wish to perform and goes to next screen. Mobile client application shows 4 entries on next screen consisting of session key received, generated fixed plain text message depending upon transaction chosen, cipher text created from combination of plain text and MPIN and 4-part secure message. Secure SMS contains account number in plain text, session key in encrypted format, cipher text created from plain text and MPIN and message digest calculated from message.Customer will send message to sever using as normal message. C. Receiving and Replying Secure SMS from Server Module Proposed Server is running on computer installed with required software like VB. NET, Windows mobile de vice centre and SDK, . NET compact framework, MS-access and Server side application. Server side application has four modules as SMS Service, Information Manage, Transaction Manage and User Requests. SMS service module retrieves SMS received at Server side handset and decode it to get original query send by customer.Server application process query, get required data from bank database and then sends it in encrypted format to customer mobile through bank side modem. Whenever Customer sends any secure SMS containing his transaction query to server side GSM Modem, Server application automatically retrieves secure SMS and deletes it from server attached handset to avoid flooding of message inbox. We have used ActiveX control for this purpose. Bank Server application splits received secure SMS in same 4-parts. Server reads first part, a plain text 6-digit account number and compares it with database stored account number.If match is not found, it will send message Wrong Account Number t o customer handset. If account match is found then server uses 2nd part of secure SMS, which is session key send by user to decrypt 3rd part of received secure SMS. After decrypting 3rd part of SMS, server application gets combination of plaintext as customer original transaction query followed by 4-digit MPIN. Server application compares received MPIN with stored MPIN from server table if a match is not found, will send message Wrong Pin Number to customer handset.Server calculates message digest of 3rd part received using MD5 algorithm and compare it with received massage digest, 4th part of secure SMS to check for message integrity. If match is not found, server generates message on server side Fake Transaction and sends nothing to customer side handset as it may be off any malicious user. If all security checks are proper, Server application process query of customer and get required data from database encrypts data using session key received from customer and sends automaticall y to customer handset.VI. EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS We have developed two applications for client and server side. Mobile client application is developed using . NET compact framework and VB. NET, installed on windows mobile supported HTC mobile device. This application is used by customer for various M-banking transactions to send encrypted secure SMS to bank ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 476 Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Server and gets back encrypted reply from bank Server.Client and Server side application performs symmetric encryption and decryption using 256-bit AES symmetric encryption algorithm. MD5 algorithm is used for hashing purpose. Server side bank application is developed using VB. NET it uses SMS toolkit, an ActiveX control to retrieve and process secure SMS automatically. Server side application also contains certain modules for database management of customer account and transactions Normally symmetr ic cryptographic algorithm dont have non-repudiation as both party shares common secret key but we have used session key concept for maintaining non-repudiation property of encryption.Since Session key is used only once and created randomly, no two users can have common session key and it is created from MPIN, a master key which customer only knows so he cannot deny that he has done transaction. We have carried out 6 types of transaction including Account Balance, Mini transactions, Cheque Book Request, Cheque Stop request, Pay Bill and Fund Transfer. Following are some sample client application module. The figure no. 3 shows session key, user query in fixed plain text format, cipher text generated from combination of plain text and his MPIN and 4-part secure SMS message generated as per format discussed.This last message is sent to server. Fig. 3. Generating 4-Part Secure Message This secure SMS is retrieved by server side SMS service module. Server application split message and de crypt it to get original transaction query of customer. This query is processed to get response data from database which is firstly encrypted and then send to customer handset. Customer handset get auto reply from server side in cipher text, which is decrypted on mobile by client side application to get server response in plain text. The Figure no. 4 shows response obtained automatically from server for account balance.This reply consists of 3 parts. First part is common session key used by server and client. Second part is cipher text received from server application in secure manner. Third part is plain text message obtained after decrypting secure message received from server. Client mobile application uses 256-bit AES algorithm to decrypt message using common session key. This message will be hidden from customer and he will only get final query results in plain text format but for result purpose we have shown this screen. ISSN 0975-4024 Dec 2011- Jan 2012 477Manoj V, Bramhe / International Journal of Engineering and Technology Vol. 3 (6), 2011, 472-479 Fig. 4. Secure Reply from Server To be a secure system, it must satisfy Confidentiality, Authentication, Integrity and Non-Repudiation Secure SMS system maintains confidentiality using AES cryptography and Non-Repudiation using session key. Here 3-factor authentication is used for authentication and security purpose whereas Message integrity is carried out using MD5 algorithm. VII. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK We have implemented a secure SMS based Mobile Banking system.The system allows user to carry out all banking transaction securely from anywhere, anytime. All messages from user windows mobile are sent in encrypted format to bank server. Bank server decrypt message, process query and encrypt result in SMS. Server sends message to customer which will be decrypted on his handset. The evaluation of the system was studied for varying banking transaction and under various security threatening malicious activ ities were recorded. Performance of the transaction is studied. We have executed few banking transaction from HTC windows mobile and using VB.Net server side application. We have used LG GSM mobile as server attached mobile device. Experiments shows that secure SMS Mobile banking provides cost effective and secure system with satisfying Confidentiality, Authentication, Integrity and Non-Repudiation using symmetric cryptography. Application can be used on any windows mobile supported handset from anywhere as no GPRS and WAP are required. We have implemented system using symmetric key AES algorithm. 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