Survey of secure anonymous peer to peer Instant Messaging protocols
Rakan Alkhulaiwi, Abdulhakim Sabur, Khalid Aldughayem, Osama Almanna · 2016
Secure end-to-end communication has become a necessity for many people. In this research paper we survey the most popular and widely used secure anonymous Instant Messaging (IM) services and protocols, study them from a security and anonymity point of view, and investigate how these services or protocols could be compromised.