Security Model for Tracking Creation of Mobile Money Using Transport Layer Security Protocol

Authors

Sigsbert Rwiza, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam, P. O. Box 35062, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaFollow
Mussa Kissaka, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam, P. O. Box 35062, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaFollow
Kosmas Kapis, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Information and Communication Technologies, University of Dar es Salaam, P. O. Box 33335, Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaFollow

Section

Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Abstract

Mobile Network Operator (MNO) financial service model has security vulnerabilities in addressing verification of cash and mobile money. For instance, monthly returns are transferred in plain text from banks and MNOs to financial regulators. This may result to failure of financial regulators in detecting creation of fake mobile money. This study was conducted to develop a security model for tracking creation of mobile money using Transport Layer security protocol as a way of protecting returns in transit from banks and MNOs to financial regulators. The proposed model was developed using insights from literature, function decomposition and composition techniques and was tested by prototyping the system for tracking creation of mobile money using Laravel PhP framework, apache webserver, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) server and PhP programming language. The proposed model has eight components, namely; certificate authority, financial regulator server, bank server, MNO server, bank system, mobile money system, super-agent and mobile money issuer components.

Recommended Citation

Rwiza, Sigsbert; Kissaka, Mussa; and Kapis, Kosmas (2020) "Security Model for Tracking Creation of Mobile Money Using Transport Layer Security Protocol," Tanzania Journal of Science: Vol. 46: Iss. 3, Article 19.
Available at:https://doi.org/10.4314/tjs.v46i3.19