Security Enhancement in Android using Ellipic Curve Cryptography

Android has become an active area of research owing to its vast range of applications called apps. Traditional security protocols which are complex are not feasible for such systems due to the limitation of resources. However, Elliptic Curve Cryptography has been considered as a viable cryptographic technique due to its low computational overhead. In this paper we study the application of ECC on a popular Android operating system. Practical implementation of the ECC operations has been performed using Android library. Android operating system has been used to develop custom security protocols on a Smartphone. The performance benchmarking of the proposed protocols has also been carried out.