Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol

"SCIMP" redirects here. For the protein, see SCIMP protein.

The Silent Circle Instant Message Protocol (SCIMP) was an encryption scheme that was developed by Vincent Moscaritolo of Silent Circle. It enabled private conversation over instant message transports such as XMPP (Jabber).[1][citation needed]

SCIMP provided encryption, perfect forward secrecy and message authentication.[2] It also handled negotiating the shared secret keys.

  1. ^ "Silent Circle's SCIMP page". Archived from the original on 4 September 2015. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
  2. ^ Moscaritolo, Vinnie; Belvin, Gary; Zimmermann, Phil (5 December 2012). "Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol Protocol Specification" (PDF). Silent Circle. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2013.