HQTP: Holy Quran Transfer Protocol

Abstract

With the increase of using Holy Quran network based applications, particularly smart phone devices, these applications could be a target of dangerous attacks targeting Islam. Therefore, Muslims community needs a standard networking rules for organizing a secure way for Holy Quran transmission. In this paper we propose a novel networking protocol, called HQTP (Holy Quran Transfer Protocol). The proposed HQTP presents an application layer protocol that aims to standardize common rules identifying a secure, reliable and effective way to transmit Holy Quran (for both text and audio) over the Internet. As any other protocol, HQTP will consist of a header and a payload, the header contains control data that guarantee reliability, integrity and availability. Payload contains Holy Quran data as a text or audio and other related information such as Quran translation and explanation. We discussed the security challenges and problems and we proposed techniques to solve them.