British Company Enables Secure End To End Sms Text Message Communication
Wednesday, 7 July 2004 17:23 EST
Birmingham UK , July 07 2004
"Virtually impenetrable" software is effective defence against keyword interception and "Over the air" attacks on SMS text messages.
Silicon Village Mobile, a Birmingham UK based developer , has today launched the latest version of it's solution for sending secure SMS text messages.
The new encryption application provides secure end-to-end data transmission for SMS messages on Nokia Series 60 Sony UIQ Symbian mobile phones.
A J2ME Java version for PDA's amd MiDP 2.0 Molbile phones is imminent.
Developed by expert, Dr. David Reynolds, Fortress SMS is a phone based application that sends encrypted SMS messages and decrypts coded SMS text messages when received.
Tony King, a partner in development firm, Silicon Village Mobile said "Fortress SMS is designed for security conscious SMS users seeking to protect their sensitive private or commercial messages from over-the-air , phishing and Operator intercepts .
Users of Fortress SMS are able to transmit and receive strongly encrypted messages, directly to their mobile phones , without the need for operator or expensive hardware solutions.
There have been an alarming stories recently, of individuals and companies having their communications intercepted or compromised. David Beckham and Stuart Rose, CEO of Marks and Spencers have been 2 such victims recently
Fortress SMS users can create and read encrypted messages directly on their Series 60 , Sony and J2ME smart phones .The messages are stored in an encrypted form and password protected, so protecting them from casual or determined prying , either over the air, or at an operator location."
Technical
Platform:
Series 60 (Symbian v6) - for example the Nokia 7650, 3650 and UIQ (Sony P800/900 series)
Encryption Algorithm:
Rijndael (128 bit key, 128 bit block) with cipher block chaining (Advanced Encryption Standard Rijndael (128 bit key,
128 bit block) with cipher block chaining (Advanced Encryption Standard compliant). This meets HIPAA guidelines, and US Government classified document standards.
Hash Algorithm: MD5
Features
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
Phone to phone encryption that is service independent.
Phone based application, compose, send and read on the phone.
Messages stored encrypted.
Supports long (concatenated) messages.
Supports multiple recipients.
MD5 based integrity checking of the encrypted message.
Supports Unicode character sets.
Supports Symbian OS equipped phones.
Encrypted message storage
Multiple recipient support
Encrypted receipt and forwarding of Fortress encrypted messages
Encrypted SMS(Fortress SMS, Fortress SMS Secure centre) , MMS, Picture and Audio support. (Fortress SMS-M, Fortress SMS-M Secure centre)
Supports multiple phone compatible format attachments, not just MMS (Fortress SMS-M, Fortress SMS-M Secure centre)
Sending system authentication.
Message authentication, including digest based integrity checks of all encrypted components.
About Silicon Village
Silicon Village, based in Birmingham, United Kingdom , is a developer of innovative entertainment and security solutions for the wireless age.
Further information:
Tony King
Silicon Village
Tel: 004
Fax: 004
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