Amelia—A new security protocol for protection against false links

Abstract

In recent months, the demand for services provided on the Internet (scientific conferences, training, webinars) has increased. As this activity grew, so did cybercrime. Social networks share invitations to various training and webinars. We also receive similar announcements via e-mail. It is not difficult to accidentally click on the attached link. The submitted URL may contain a script. The script may infect our device or steal our login details. We have developed a new security protocol — Amelia, to protect against responding to a false invitation to a web event. Our protocol makes it possible to check if the link sent is valid. Also, it enables the generation of unique user identifiers. Amelia protocol provides users’ verification and distribution of symmetric session keys. We conducted a study of our protocol. We checked its vulnerability to Intruder attacks. The obtained results are promising. We did not find an attack on this protocol.