Instant Messaging (IM) has grown rapidly among network users. It has even
become a very important tool for the industry around the world. It is used in scheduling
meetings, exchanging business information and clients information, and so on. Instant
Messaging has been developed by private sectors or providers such as America Online
Instant Messenger (AIM), MSN, and Yahoo; however, in 1998 a new protocol has seen
the light as an open source Instant Messaging protocol and had the name of Jabber and
thanks to Jeremie Miller the founder of the Jabber protocol.
The project gathered wide public attention when it was discussed on the popular
developer discussion website Slashdot in January 1999. In May 2000, the core Jabber
protocols were released as open source reference server and it have not been changed to
this day. Jabber uses client-server architecture, not a direct peer-to-peer architecture
as some other messaging systems do. It is actually an Extensible Markup Language
(XML) messaging protocol. It relies on XML document format in every aspect of the
communication. [1]
Jabber Protocol have gone a long way to be one of the most attractive protocol
because of its open source and extensibility. Anyone can build or extend the jabber
protocol functionality without actually modifying the core protocol and still maintain
interoperability with other IM clients such as Yahoo and MSN. Moreover, as the usage of
Jabber Instant Messaging technology increases, the need for information protection in the
Jabber messaging medium also increases. This thesis will explore the Jabber protocol
and the ability to secure a Jabber based communication over the network using third
party cryptographic libraries. / Graduation date: 2003
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/31683 |
| Date | 03 June 2003 |
| Creators | Almanei, Saleh |
| Contributors | Koc, Cetin K. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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