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.

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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
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/074
License
Creative Commons Attribution
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},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/074}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/074}
}
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