FoSAM: Forward Secret Messaging in Ad-Hoc Networks
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| author | Schadt, Daniel Coijanovic, Christoph Strufe, Thorsten |
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| contents | Apps such as Firechat and Bridgefy have been used during recent protests in Hong Kong and Iran, as they allow communication over ad-hoc wireless networks even when internet access is restricted. However, these apps do not provide sufficient protection as they do not achieve forward secrecy in unreliable networks. Without forward secrecy, caught protesters' devices will disclose all previous messages to the authorities, putting them and others at great risk. In this paper, we introduce FoSAM, the first protocol to provide proven anonymous and forward secret messaging in unreliable ad-hoc networks. Communication in FoSAM requires only the receiver's public key, rather than an interactive handshake. We evaluate the performance of FoSAM using a large-scale simulation with different user movement patterns, showing that it achieves between 92% and 99% successful message delivery. We additionally implement a FoSAM prototype for Android. |
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| spellingShingle | FoSAM: Forward Secret Messaging in Ad-Hoc Networks Schadt, Daniel Coijanovic, Christoph Strufe, Thorsten Cryptography and Security Apps such as Firechat and Bridgefy have been used during recent protests in Hong Kong and Iran, as they allow communication over ad-hoc wireless networks even when internet access is restricted. However, these apps do not provide sufficient protection as they do not achieve forward secrecy in unreliable networks. Without forward secrecy, caught protesters' devices will disclose all previous messages to the authorities, putting them and others at great risk. In this paper, we introduce FoSAM, the first protocol to provide proven anonymous and forward secret messaging in unreliable ad-hoc networks. Communication in FoSAM requires only the receiver's public key, rather than an interactive handshake. We evaluate the performance of FoSAM using a large-scale simulation with different user movement patterns, showing that it achieves between 92% and 99% successful message delivery. We additionally implement a FoSAM prototype for Android. |
| title | FoSAM: Forward Secret Messaging in Ad-Hoc Networks |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12871 |