Paper Title
Cipher SMS Protocol For End-To-End Secure Transmission Of SMS

Abstract
Nowadays, short message service (SMS) is being used in many daily life applications, including healthcare monitoring, Mobile banking, mobile commerce, and so on. But when we send an SMS from one mobile phone to another, the information contained in the SMS transmit as plain text Sometimes this information may be confidential like account numbers, passwords, license numbers, and so on, and it is a major drawback to send such information through SMS while the traditional SMS service does not provide encryption to the information before its transmission. In this paper, we propose an efficient and secure protocol called Cipher SMS, which provides end-to- end secure communication through SMS between end users. The working of the protocol is presented by considering two different scenarios. The analysis of the proposed protocol shows that this protocol is able to prevent various attacks, including SMS disclosure, over the air modification, replay attack, man-in-the- middle attack, and impersonation attack. The Cipher SMS protocol generates minimum communication and computation overheads as compared with existing Easy SMS, SMSSec and PK-SIM protocols. On an average, the Cipher SMS protocol reduces 51% and 31% of the bandwidth consumption and reduces 62% and 45% of message exchanged during the authentication process in comparison to existing protocols. Authors claim that Cipher SMS is the first protocol completely based on the cryptographic algorithms and retain original architecture of cellular network. Index Terms— Authentication, over-the-air, security, SMS, symmetric key, cipher SMS, cryptography.