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Advantages And Disadvantages Of SMS

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ABSTRACT
Now days, Mobile has become the most essential part of day-to-day life of human being. Mobile provides a way of communication to the users. Functionalities provided by mobiles are powerful as much as tablet or desktop. One of the important functionality provided by mobiles is Short Message Service (SMS). Currently, SMS is used vastly for value added services. SMS contains plaint text which is sent to the other user over GSM. SMS doesn’t provide in-build encryption mechanism to encrypt the text contained within SMS. In this paper, we have discussed about various existing methods to encrypt and secure the SMS communication. In the end, all the existing schemes are compared to show the advantages and disadvantages of each scheme.

Keywords: Short Message Service (SMS), SMS Security, PKI.
1. INTRODUCTION
In early day, if two user wants to communicate with each other, they used to send letters to other using Post Services. It required a lot of time to get answers back due to manual work. Sender is also not sure about whether the message reached to correct recipient or not. This drawback was overcome by SMS. SMS is invented in 90’s century. In SMS, sender sends a message to another person using his/her mobile phone or computer system. SMS is wireless messaging service using which users can send plain text message to each other. Text messages have limited number of characters to be sent in one message.

In single message, 160 characters can be sent as a plain text. When

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