Design and Implementation of Secure Instant Messaging System Based on MSN

Author

Bin, Zhang ; Meng, Feng ; Hou-ren, Xiong ; Dian-you, Hu

Author_Institution

Inf. Security Dept., Zhengzhou Inf. Sci. & Technol. Inst., Zhengzhou, China

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

20-22 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

38

Lastpage

41

Abstract

A global frame of secure instant messaging system based on Microsoft MSN is proposed to solve the security problems that exist in instant messaging. A secure add-in is designed and integrated seamlessly into the MSN client utilizing interfaces of the MSN client. The identity based cryptography is introduced into the secure instant messaging field and thus a secure instant messaging key management module based on IBC is designed and implemented. At last, the results of the performance test of the add-in and key management module show that, in the precondition of being compatible to MSN, the system could solve the secure problems between instant messaging users such as key management, identity authentication, message encryption and authentication etc.

Keywords

authorisation; cryptography; electronic messaging; Microsoft MSN; identity authentication; identity-based cryptography; key management module; message encryption; secure add-in; secure instant messaging system; Authentication; Communication system security; Cryptography; Identity management systems; Identity-based encryption; Information security; Payloads; Protocols; System testing; Universal Serial Bus; MSN; instant messaging; key management; secure IM; secure add-in;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Computational Technology, 2008. ISCSCT '08. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3746-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCSCT.2008.49

Filename

4731369