A Smart Card Mediated Mobile Platform for Secure E-Mail Communication

Author

Kardas, Geylani ; Celikel, Ebru

Author_Institution

Int. Comput. Inst., Ege Univ., Izmir

fYear

2007

fDate

2-4 April 2007

Firstpage

925

Lastpage

928

Abstract

We introduce a mobile e-mail communication platform which employs smart card to provide authentication and confidentiality for e-mail exchange. The security of the system is incorporated by PGP based asymmetric encryption. Smart card is used to store the mail account information, as well as PGP private key of each user to offer further security, authentication and mobility to the system. The real contribution of our scheme is the absorption of all the complexity of PGP to a PIN based smart card by causing no compromise on the security of PGP. We use JavaCard technology in real life implementation of the proposed platform

Keywords

Java; cryptography; electronic mail; message authentication; mobile communication; smart cards; JavaCard technology; PIN based smart card; asymmetric encryption; e-mail authentication; e-mail confidentiality; mobile e-mail communication; secure e-mail communication; Absorption; Authentication; Communication system security; Cryptography; Electronic mail; Information security; Java; Mobile communication; Postal services; Smart cards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology, 2007. ITNG '07. Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2776-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITNG.2007.21

Filename

4151810