Authentication and authenticated key exchanges
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Wallet Databases with Observers
CRYPTO '92 Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
Off-the-record communication, or, why not to use PGP
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Secure off-the-record messaging
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM workshop on Privacy in the electronic society
Why Johnny can't encrypt: a usability evaluation of PGP 5.0
SSYM'99 Proceedings of the 8th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 8
A user study of off-the-record messaging
Proceedings of the 4th symposium on Usable privacy and security
Multi-party off-the-record messaging
Proceedings of the 16th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
Vanish: increasing data privacy with self-destructing data
SSYM'09 Proceedings of the 18th conference on USENIX security symposium
Keeping data secret under full compromise using porter devices
Proceedings of the 26th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
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Instant Messaging software is now used in homes and businesses by a wide variety of people. Many of these users would benefit from additional privacy, but do not have enough specialized knowledge to use existing privacy-enhancing software. There is a need for privacy software to be easy to understand, with complicated cryptographic concepts hidden from the user. We look at improving the usability of Off-the-Record Messaging, a popular privacy plugin for instant messaging software. By using a solution to the Socialist Millionaires' Problem, we are able to provide the same level of privacy and authentication as in older versions of OTR, but we no longer require that the user understand any difficult concepts such as keys or fingerprints.