Research Article
SAVED: Secure Android Value addED services
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_30, author={Antonio Grillo and Alessandro Lentini and Vittorio Ottaviani and Giuseppe Italiano and Fabrizio Battisti}, title={SAVED: Secure Android Value addED services}, proceedings={International Workshop on Mobile Security}, proceedings_a={MOBILE SECURITY}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={IPC security Value Added Services digital certificate service interoperability}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_30} }- Antonio Grillo
Alessandro Lentini
Vittorio Ottaviani
Giuseppe Italiano
Fabrizio Battisti
Year: 2012
SAVED: Secure Android Value addED services
MOBILE SECURITY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_30
Abstract
The availability of free Software Development Kits for recent mobile device platforms challenges many developers in realizing applications for the growing Smartphone market. In many cases such applications may interoperate in their working environment using mechanisms similar to the inter-process communication (IPC) and made available by the mobile operating system. Unfortunately, mobile devices lack in flexible solutions for making these communications secure. In this paper we propose a framework to secure the message exchange with the services installed on Google Android mobile devices. VASs realized by different providers are discovered, used and composed by an Application Frame designed for realizing complex goals. We implemented a prototype of our proposed framework on a real device and we performed extensive testing to measure the overhead introduced by the cryptographic operations required to protect the inter process communication.