Smart Cities: A Secure Data Transmission Model

The concept of Smart cities is gaining popularity at an extremely high rate. The data associated with them is of very large amount. This data affects the various services associated with them be it E Governance, smart transportation or smart education. Till now most of the security approaches that have been suggested, focus on database security and not on security of the data transmission process as a whole. In this paper we have proposed a model for secure transmission of data. This model is implemented using digital signatures for authentication and triple DES for data transmission. Digital signatures are further implemented using MD5 for hashing and RSA algorithm for encryption.

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