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Sécurité & Menaces:Messageries instantanées: mots de passe et conversations sont-ils sécurisés ?
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Safety & Threats: Instantaneous transport: are passwords and conversations protected?
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Safety - Yahoo Messenger, AIM, Sametime Lotus, Skype or Google Talk… The instantaneous transport does not use all coding to protect connections and conservations… Which level of safety offer they? Review.

Can one really make confidence with the safety of the solutions of instantaneous transport, largely widespread including in company? The need for protection forever be also important, since the conversations exchanged on these networks can interest of the pirates: thanks to easy tools of access, they have the means of consulting them including in real time.

However all the networks do not offer the same level of confidentiality and safety. To take stock, our American drafting made the turn of the suppliers of solutions of instantaneous transport popular, in their raising ten questions.

Coding is still not an obviousness

From the start, it appears that safety, and in particular coding, are still not an obviousness, twelve years after the arrival of ICQ. Only half of the services integrated it: AOL Messenger Moment, Google Talk, Sametime Lotus of IBM and Skype.

Small useful precision: none the suppliers indicates to preserve trace of the contents of the communications. Concerning the data of connection, Microsoft affirms to keep some no, while Google and Skype ensure to remove them quickly. What explains the moderate use of coding.

Coding is however crucial With an opened connection without wire, it is enough to download a software such as dSniff to intercept not quantified communications. As example, the American police force has one plug-in provided by the WildPackets editor allowing to intercept and consult conversations put on listening - e-mail, VoIP calls are also in the list.

For as much, to pride itself to use a system of coding is not enough. If the algorithm is not powerful enough or if errors were made during its implementation, it can be easy to circumvent. The study thus misses, in fact, of precision on this level.

Facebook Chat shown of the finger

It is not exhaustive besides, since certain solutions of transport do not appear as tel. It is the case of Jabber, which is integrated into Google Talk, iChat of Apple, Adium (OS X), Trillian Pro (with one plug-in) and Psi. It uses coding both for connection to protect the conversations.

Jabber deserves a special mention even if it does not appear in the table. Whereas the quasi-majority of the questioned suppliers uses closed systems, owners, it rests on open standards definite by the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Jabber, known under technical name XMPP, makes it possible the companies to manage their own Jabber waiters, by offering more flexibility.

The palm of the bad candidate goes in Facebook Chat, which proves to be the least sure and the least respectful of the private life. It makes the dead end on coding to protect connections - allowing others to make a harvest of passwords -, and the conversations. Contacted, Facebook refused clearly with any comment.

Apple, as for him, was isolated of the investigation, because its software iChat uses the network of AOL Instant Messenger. Users of Macintosh having a subscription with the service. Mac (from now on renamed MobileMe) can activate coding for the instantaneous transport, the audio and video conversations, and the file transfers.

[1] In spite of a one week deadline, Facebook refused to answer the questions.

[2] Ambiguous response at Facebook: the site states at the same time that the history of the conversations “is not recorded in the logs permanently”, and that it is filed during 90 days.

[3] Coding is activated by defect on the downloadable customer, decontaminated by defect for the Web, and is not dealt with by the gadget Google Talk.

[4] Skeletal: the users can choose to file their Gmail conversations if they wish it.

[5] The conversations are not quantified, but the files exchanged via Windows Live Messenger are it.

By the drafting, ZDNet France
Source of topicality: http://www.zdnet.fr/actualites/informatique/0,39040745,39381665,00.htm

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