Secure mobile application on GoogleTM android

• Main Author: Lee, Chun Fong.
• Other Authors: Ng Chee Hock
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Applications of electronics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49454
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

More than half the world‟s population now has access to mobile phones. While these devices enable spoken communication, many users (especially teenagers and young adults) heavily employ them for sending and receiving written text messages. So it is important that every mobile phone had its own security function. As now the Android operating system is getting more commonly used on different brand of mobile phone like Samsung, HTC, LG and etc. It is important that our contents in mobile phones are fully secure and safe from malware and hackers, so that any information sent will not be eavesdropping but others or getting viruses into your phone. But how do we secure all this contents? The answer is by adding a security function like public-key cryptography on the contacts. Once the contacts are secure by the key, those non related peoples that wanted to eavesdrop into the contents will had a hard time. It also nearly impossible to hack into the content if those hackers does not know those keys. The main objective of this report is to make the mobile phones secured by implementing the method to make every single contact that each of it will have a “keys”. So how should it be implemented and what are the steps to create those security function will be shown in those chapters of the report.