DocumentCode
3780054
Title
On privacy protection in the Internet surveillance era
Author
Dijana Vukovic;Danilo Gligoroski;Zoran Djuric
Author_Institution
Department of Telematics, NTNU, O.S. Bragstads plass 2B, Trondheim, Norway
fYear
2014
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
6
Abstract
Snowden´s whistleblower from the last year made people more aware of the fact that we are living in the Internet surveillance era. Privacy of Internet communication has been disrupted. In this paper, application for privacy protection in chat communication, named CryptoCloak, is presented. CryptoCloak provides privacy protection for chat communication. Encrypted communication is masked with dynamic cheap chat conversation. Communication made this way is not point of interest for mass surveillance spying engines. For implementation of the CryptoCloak, Facebook Messenger API is used. Diffie-Hellman key exchange is done in clandestine manner - instead of sending uniform sequence of numbers, sentences are sent. Current version provides encryption/decryption mechanism for the chat communication using strong symmetric algorithm AES in CBC mode. 256 bits of Diffie-Hellman exchanged key are used for AES-CBC.
Keywords
"Cryptography","Internet","Privacy","Surveillance","Uniform resource locators","Databases","Facebook"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), 2014 11th International Conference on
Type
conf
Filename
7509498
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