Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication

Joo Im Kim; Ji Won Yoon

doi:10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472064

Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication

Joo Im Kim, Ji Won Yoon

School of Cybersecurity

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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 brute-force 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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	2184-2188
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479999880
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472064
Publication status	Published - 2016 May 18
Event	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Shanghai, China Duration: 2016 Mar 20 → 2016 Mar 25

Publication series

Name	ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
Volume	2016-May
ISSN (Print)	1520-6149

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Other	41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016
Country/Territory	China
City	Shanghai
Period	16/3/20 → 16/3/25

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2013R1A1A1012797).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 IEEE.

Keywords

Brute-force attack
Eavesdropping
Honey Encryption
Instant Messaging

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Signal Processing
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Kim, J. I., & Yoon, J. W. (2016). Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings (pp. 2184-2188). Article 7472064 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-May). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472064

Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication. / Kim, Joo Im; Yoon, Ji Won.
2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. p. 2184-2188 7472064 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings; Vol. 2016-May).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kim, JI & Yoon, JW 2016, Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication. in 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings., 7472064, ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings, vol. 2016-May, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 2184-2188, 41st IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China, 16/3/20. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472064

Kim JI, Yoon JW. Honey chatting: A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2016. p. 2184-2188. 7472064. (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2016.7472064

Kim, Joo Im ; Yoon, Ji Won. / Honey chatting : A novel instant messaging system robust to eavesdropping over communication. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2016 - Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2016. pp. 2184-2188 (ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings).

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