END TO END TRANSMISSION OF SMS USING CRYPTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUE

Short message service (SMS) is a very popular and one of the easy to use communication technologies for mobile phone devices. Originally, this service was not designed to transmit secured data, so the security was not an important issue during its design. Short Message Service is normally used to transport unclassified data, but with the rise of mobile commerce it has become a fundamental tool for conducting business. However SMS does not guarantee confidentiality and integrity of the message. Now a days, short message service (SMS) is being us ed in many daily life applications, including mobile banking, mobile commerce, and so on. But when we send an SMS from one mobile device 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 propos e an efficient and secure technique, which provides end - to - end secure communication through SMS between end users. This paper proposes encryption technique that can be used to secure a SMS communication, when SMS is transmitting form source to destination, it have to be reached up to the destination securely means SMS transmission have to be secure.