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Signatures with SMSes may become a reality
By siliconindia
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Friday, 29 October 2010, 00:56 IST
New Delhi:The government is drafting a plan to allow proxy SIM cards carrying digital certificates to be used in mobile phones, which can make emails and SMSes sent from a mobile phone secure.It will allow digitally sign emails and SMSes sent from mobile phone.
SIM cards or flash memory cards with digital certificates will make transactions via mobile phones secure. Digital certificates carry encrypted digital signatures of a person and are uniquely issued to each person or company. However, digitally signed SMS will be more like an MMS; costing more as signed SMS will use memory of about 256 KB while an SMS is about 40-50 bytes.
"To make Indias future in mobile banking and mobile transactions secure, we are recommending the certification of proxy SIM cards with digital certificates, which can be inserted on top of regular SIM cards. These will enable the signatures with emails and even SMSes sent via mobile phones," said N Vijayaditya, Controller of Certifying Authority.