A Study of XMPP Chat Servers: Improving Security with Cryptography
Poonam Rani, Amandeep Singh Arora, Shalu Tondon, Vikas Rao Vadi, Vrinda Sachdeva · 2024
The security of instant messaging has become a major worry as it has evolved. A secure chat system is readily available, allowing for communication with people almost anywhere in the world. This paper discusses security concerns with instant messaging. This paper provides a brief introduction to instant messaging (IM) and the eXtensible messaging and presence protocol (XMPP). This study also looks at the XMPP technologies and specifications and identifies serious security vulnerabilities in currently operating public chat servers. Additionally, it gives an overview of different text-based encryption techniques and aids in selecting the best approach to improve instant messaging security with the least amount of overhead. The suggested method aims to improve the security of the current open chat server that uses XMPP.