Özet
Communication security has become an indispensable demand of smartphone users. End-to-end encryption is the key factor for providing communication security, which mainly relies on public key cryptography. The main and unresolved issue for public key cryptography is to correctly match a public key with its owner. Failing to do so could lead to man-in-the-middle attacks. Different public key verification methods have been proposed in the literature. The methods which are based on verification by the users themselves are preferable with respect to cost and deployability than the methods such as digital certificates that involve the use of trusted third parties. One of these methods, fingerprinting was recently replaced by a method called safety number in the open source messaging application, SIGNAL. The developers of SIGNAL claimed this change would bring usability and security advantages however no formal user study was conducted supporting this claim. In this study, we compare the usability and security aspects of these two methods with a user study on 42 participants. The results indicate with significance that the safety number method leads to more successful results in less time for public key verification as compared to the fingerprint method.
Orijinal dil | İngilizce |
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Ana bilgisayar yayını başlığı | Information Security - 21st International Conference, ISC 2018, Proceedings |
Editörler | Liqun Chen, Mark Manulis, Steve Schneider |
Yayınlayan | Springer Verlag |
Sayfalar | 85-98 |
Sayfa sayısı | 14 |
ISBN (Basılı) | 9783319991351 |
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Yayın durumu | Yayınlandı - 2018 |
Harici olarak yayınlandı | Evet |
Etkinlik | 21st Information Security Conference, ISC 2018 - Guildford, United Kingdom Süre: 9 Eyl 2018 → 12 Eyl 2018 |
Yayın serisi
Adı | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Hacim | 11060 LNCS |
ISSN (Basılı) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Elektronik) | 1611-3349 |
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???event.eventtypes.event.conference??? | 21st Information Security Conference, ISC 2018 |
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Ülke/Bölge | United Kingdom |
Şehir | Guildford |
Periyot | 9/09/18 → 12/09/18 |
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