• DocumentCode
    2003807
  • Title

    On the Privacy of Encrypted Skype Communications

  • Author

    Dupasquier, Benoît ; Burschka, Stefan ; McLaughlin, Kieran ; Sezer, Sakir

  • Author_Institution
    Centre for Secure Inf. Technol. (CSIT), Queen´´s Univ. of Belfast, Belfast, UK
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    6-10 Dec. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    The privacy of voice over IP (VoIP) systems is achieved by compressing and encrypting the sampled data. This paper investigates in detail the leakage of information from Skype, a widely used VoIP application. In this research, it has been demonstrated by using the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm, that sentences can be identified with an accuracy of 60%. The results can be further improved by choosing specific training data. An approach involving the Kalman filter is proposed to extract the kernel of all training signals.
  • Keywords
    Internet telephony; Kalman filters; cryptography; data compression; data privacy; DTW algorithm; Kalman filter; VoIP system privacy; dynamic time warping; encrypted Skype communication; voice over IP; Accuracy; Codecs; Cryptography; Data models; Heuristic algorithms; Kalman filters; Speech;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Miami, FL
  • ISSN
    1930-529X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5636-9
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1930-529X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5684214
  • Filename
    5684214