Online security protocols for NFC mobile payment applications

Other Title(s)

طرق مقترحة لتوفير وسط آمن لتطبيقات الدفع باستخدام الهاتف النقال المزود بتقنية الاتصال قريب المدى

Dissertant

Abd al-Rida, Mayyadah Adnan

Thesis advisor

al-Haj, Ali

Comitee Members

Abu Sharkh, Usamah M. F.
al-Qarallah, Isam A.
Alya, Muhammad

University

Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Faculty

King Abdullah II Faculty of Engineering

Department

Department of Electrical Engineering

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2017

English Abstract

Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short range wireless technology that allows exchange of data between devices communicating within a maximum distance of 10cm recently, the NFC functionality has been integrated inside mobile devices to allow them act as identifiers for customers, credit cards, and access cards.

This integration triggered the development of a growing number of mobile services and applications such as online mobile payment, gaming, ticketing, voting, navigation and much more.

Payment transaction using NFC-enabled Mobile devices payment is continuously increasing because of its speed, convenience, and ease of use.

However, a widespread of NFC-based payment can be guaranteed, if and only if, the payment transactions are made in a secured wireless environment.

Unfortunately, the Europay, Mastercard and Visa (EMV) protocol, which is currently used to provide the required security, has some serious vulnerabilities which could lead to obvious risks for users of NFC-based payments.

In turn, those risks may lead in the slow adoption of NFC technology for making mobile payment transactions.

This thesis presents two solutions to enhance the security of NFC payments by solving the vulnerabilities of the EMV protocol.

Each of the two solutions adds a security layer to the EMV protocol in order to ensure confidentiality of the transmitted banking data and to provide mutual authentication between the different actors involved in the NFC payment transactions.

Moreover, the two solutions have been developed following a lightweight design so that they can be easily implemented on the constrained hardware resources of the NFC-enabled mobile devices.

It’s hoped that this thesis would contribute effectively to the current active research security of NFC-based mobile payment applications.

Main Subjects

Electronic engineering

Topics

• Wireless communication systems

No. of Pages

100

Table of Contents

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• MLA
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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-720858