Improved user authentication in Off-the-Record Messaging

WPES'07 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in Electronic Society

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 41-47

  Alexander, Chris ^a   Goldberg, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

authentication; fingerprints; instant messaging; socialist millionaires' protocol

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHIC CONCEPTS; DIFFICULT CONCEPTS; FINGERPRINTS; INSTANT MESSAGING; PLUG-INS; SOCIALIST MILLIONAIRES' PROTOCOL; SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE; USER AUTHENTICATION;

MESSAGE PASSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUTHENTICATION;

EID: 65449172682     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1314333.1314340     Document Type: Conference Paper

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