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This paper proposes a secure color-code key exchange protocol for secure mobile chat applications (MC APPs). This proposed protocol in this paper is a novel approach which the exchanged color-code coding session keys are selected from the assigned color-code sets, which each color-code key is determined by according to a random number and generated by using simple exclusive-or operations for each session. Furthermore, some distinct color codes are chosen randomly and represented as passwords for the distinct session, which are exchanged via a Mobile Chat Server (MCS). In addition, the exchanged color-code session key is used for the encryption and decryption algorithm which could provide an easy approach to protect the communicated messages between the two clients’ MC APP for each session. Finally, it could be applied efficiently to be a novel secure key exchange mechanism on a MC APP.
This version is extended from the original paper titled as ‘A Secure Color-Code Key Exchange Protocol’ presented in the MobiSec2016 workshop, Taichung, Taiwan, July 13–16, 2016.
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The authors would like to express the most immense gratitude to the anonymous referees for their insightful and constructive comments. This work was supported in part by Asia University and China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taiwan under Grant ASIA-105-CMUH-04. This work was also supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, Republic of China, under Grant MOST 104-2221-E-468-002.
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Chen, HC. et al. (2018). A Secure Color-Code Key Exchange Protocol for Mobile Chat Application. In: You, I., Leu, FY., Chen, HC., Kotenko, I. (eds) Mobile Internet Security. MobiSec 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 797. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7850-7_6
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