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On secure messaging

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What formal guarantees should a secure messaging application provide? Do the most widely-used protocols provide them? Can we do better? In this thesis we answer these questions and with them give a formal study of modern secure messaging protocols, which encrypt the personal messages of billions of users.

We give definitions and analyses of two protocols: one existing (Signal) and one new (ART). For Signal, we begin by extending and generalising classic computational models, in orde...

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MPLS
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Computer Science
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Type of award:
DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford
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2018-10-19

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