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Nowadays, social networks (like Facebook) have not only absorbed the function of abating pure IM (Instant Messaging) systems (like ICQ) but also their dangers, such as cyberbullying and security violations. Existent safe IM blacklist sifters already conform to the security objectives authenticity, integrity, privacy, and resilience, but simple tricks of inventive bullies can evade filtering of their originated instant messages. Therefore, this treatise introduces a novel conception of a secure IM sieve based on whitelisting. Beside a detailed view on the underlying architecture, security and performance analyses adumbrate the feasibility of the approach.
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Fahrnberger, G. (2016). Secure Whitelisting of Instant Messages. In: Fahrnberger, G., Eichler, G., Erfurth, C. (eds) Innovations for Community Services. I4CS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 648. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49466-1_7
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