Paper 2017/074
Honey Chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication
Joo-Im Kim and Ji Won Yoon
Abstract
There have been many efforts to strengthen security of Instant Messaging (IM) system. One of the typical technologies is the conventional message encryption using a secret or private key. However, the key is fundamentally vulnerable to a bruteforce attack, causing to acquire the original message. In this respect, a countermeasure was suggested as the way to generating plausible-looking but fake plaintexts, which is called Honey Encryption (HE). In this paper, we present a HE-based statistical scheme and design a Honey Chatting application, which is robust to eavesdropping. Besides, we verify the effectiveness of the Honey Chatting by comparing the entropy of decrypted messages through experiments.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. ICASSP 2016: The 41st International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
- Keywords
- Honey EncryptionLanguage model
- Contact author(s)
- jiwon_yoon @ korea ac kr
- History
- 2017-02-04: revised
- 2017-02-03: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/074
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/074,
author = {Joo-Im Kim and Ji Won Yoon},
title = {Honey Chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/074},
year = {2017},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/074}
}
