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Design Issues in the Construction of a Cryptographically Secure Instant Message Service for Android Smartphones

Authors:
Alexandre Braga
Daniela Schwab

Keywords: Cryptography; Security; Android; Instant Message.

Abstract:
This paper describes design and implementation issues concerning the construction of a cryptographically secure instant message service for Android devices along with its underlying cryptographic library. The paper starts by discussing security requirements for instant message applications, and proceeds to the architecture of cryptographic components and selection of cryptographic services. Concerning this last point, two sets of services were implemented: one based only on standardized algorithms and other based solely on non-standard cryptography.

Pages: 7 to 13

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: November 16, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2162-2116

ISBN: 978-1-61208-376-6

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014