Secure public instant messaging

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" Secure public instant messaging "
Mohammad Abdul Mannan

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	52633
Doc. No	:	TL22587
Call number	:	‭MR10118‬
Main Entry	:	Mohammad Abdul Mannan
Title & Author	:	Secure public instant messaging\ Mohammad Abdul Mannan
College	:	Carleton University (Canada)
Date	:	2005
Degree	:	M.C.S.
student score	:	2005
Page No	:	121
Abstract	:	Although Instant Messaging (IM) services are quite mature and very popular as an instant way of communication over the Internet, they have received barely any attention from the security research community. We provide a survey on security features and threats to existing IM networks and discuss how currently available systems fail to provide adequate security in light of existing threats. Despite important differences distinguishing IM from other Internet applications, no protocols have been designed to adequately deal with the unique security issues of IM. We present the Instant Messaging Key Exchange (IMKE) protocol as a step towards secure IM. IMKE is designed to provide security in the present Internet threat model. It is intended to be embedded in (as a small change to) popular IM protocols, not to function as another independent messaging protocol. A discussion of realistic threats to IM and a related analysis of IMKE using a BAN (Burrows-Abadi-Needham)-like [30] logic is also provided. An implementation of IMKE using the open-source Jabber protocol is provided as well.
Subject	:	Applied sciences; Computer science; 0984:Computer science
Added Entry	:	Carleton University (Canada)