DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF FILE ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
File encryption attempts to ensure secrecy in communications, such as those of spies, military leaders, and diplomats, but it have also had religious applications. The aim of the study is to design and implement a File Encryption And Decryption System. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives of study were considered to design and develop an application software that will understand and improve the file data security through encryption of data, protect the pdf file (.pdf) from being viewed by third party using encryption and ensure the data confidentiality and integrity along with the safe transmission of file data over the web. The motivation that led to the implementation of the proposed system is that the password method used in almost all commercial operating systems is probably not very strong against a sophisticated or unsophisticated attacker. The choice of data encryption comes next in the minds of those that want reduction of unauthorized access on confidential files or data. The methodology adopted in this study is the structure system analysis and design methodology (SSADM) which is a technical approach for analyzing and designing an application or system by applying object oriented programming as well as visual modeling throughout the software development process. The programming language used is HTML, CSS, JAVASCRIPT, PHP, SQL and JQUERY. The reason why web programming languages was used is because, it is platform independent and it is a web based application. This study serves as a contribution towards improving information, data and information security on computerized information systems especially for organizations where data is transferred from one point to another. The expected result is a computerized file encryption and decryption system that will encrypt files and also produce an accurate and corresponding file data after decryption.
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 Introduction
In the past, security was simply a matter of locking the door or storing files in a locked filing cabinet or safe. Today, paper is no longer the only medium of choice for housing information. Files are stored in computer databases as well as file cabinets. Hard drives and floppy disks hold many of our secret information. In the physical world, security is a fairly simple concept. If the locks on your house’s doors and windows are so strong that a thief cannot break in to steal your belongings, the house is secure. For further protection against intruders breaking through the locks, you might have security alarms. Similarly, if someone tries to fraudulently withdraw money from your bank account but the teller asks for identification and does not trust the thief’s story, your money is secure. When you sign a contract with another person, the signatures are the legal driving force that impels both parties to honor their word.
As the Internet becomes a more pervasive part of daily life, the need for e-security becomes even more critical. Any organization engaged in online activity must assess and manage the e-security risks associated with this activity. Effective use of cryptographic techniques is at the core of many of these risk-management strategies. The most important security tool is cryptography.
1.2 Background of the Study
Before the modern era, cryptography was concerned solely with message confidentiality (i.e., encryption) − conversion of messages from a comprehensible form into an incomprehensible one, and back again at the other end, rendering it unreadable by interceptors or eavesdroppers without secret knowledge (namely, the key needed for decryption of that message). In recent decades, the field has expanded beyond confidentiality concerns to include techniques for message integrity checking, sender/receiver identity authentication, digital signatures, interactive proofs, and secure computation, amongst others.
Encryption attempts to ensure secrecy in communications, such as those of spies, military leaders, and diplomats, but it have also had religious applications. Steganography (i.e., hiding even the existence of a message so as to keep it confidential) was also first developed in ancient times. An early example, from Herodotus, concealed a message − a tattoo on a slave’s shaved head − under the regrown hair. More modern examples of steganography include the use of invisible ink, microdots, and digital watermarks to conceal information.
In the digital world, security works in a similar way. One concept is privacy, meaning that no one can break into files to read your sensitive data (such as medical records) or steal money (by, for example, obtaining credit card numbers or online brokerage accounts information). Privacy is the lock on the door. Another concept, data integrity, refers to a mechanism that tells us when something has been altered. That’s the alarm. By applying the practice of authentication, we can verify identities. That’s comparable to the ID required to withdraw money from a bank account (or conduct a transaction with an online broker). And finally, non repudiation is a legal driving force that impels people to honor their word.
1.3 Statement of the Problem
The problem is security. The password method used in almost all commercial operating systems is probably not very strong against a sophisticated or unsophisticated attacker. The choice of data encryption comes next in the minds of those that want reduction of unauthorized access on confidential files or data. Security provided by the computer operating systems come with a preset super user account and password.
The super user may have a password to control network functionality, another to conduct or access nightly backups, create accounts, and so on. For a cracker, logging on to a system as the super user is possibly the best way to collect data or do damage. If the super user has not changed an operating system’s preprogrammed passwords, the network is vulnerable to attack.
Most crackers know these passwords, and their first attempt to break into a network is simply to try them. If an attacker cannot log on as the super user, the next best thing might be to figure out the user name and password of a regular user.
1.4 Aim and objective of the Study
The aim of the study is to design and implement an File Encryption And Decryption System. In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives of study were considered to design and develop an application software that will;
- Understand and improve the file data security through encryption of data.
- Protect the pdf file (.pdf) from being viewed by third party using encryption.
- Ensure the data confidentiality and integrity along with the safe transmission of file data over the web.
- Create a network for each computer to easily upload and download encrypted files over the peer to peer network, and this can be done without having access to the internet.
1.5 Scope of the Study
The scope of study focuses on Design and Implementation of a File Encryption and Decryption System.
1.6 Significant of the Study
One of the most important tools for protecting your file from an authorized access is Data Encryption, any of various methods that are used to turn readable files into gibberish. Even if an attacker obtains the contents of the file, it is gibberish. It does not matter whether or not the operating system protections worked.
This study will be of immense benefit to other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.
1.7 Limitations of the Study
During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:
- Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
- Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
- Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
- Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet).
1.8 Definition of Terms
Based on this research work, the following terms are used, and briefly defined bellow;
Encryption: A process of converting data/information into another form.
Decryption: A process of converting data/information (multimedia) back to its Original form.
Clear-text/plaintext: Original data/information before it is enciphered / scrambled.
Ciphered text/cryptogram: Information (multimedia) that has been converted into other symbols or form.
CHAPTER TWO
2.0 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
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TABLE OF CONTENTSPRELIMINARY PAGES
- Title page
- Approval page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Table of Contents
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Background of the Study
- 1.3 Statement of the Problem
- 1.4 Aim and objective of the Study
- 1.5 Scope of the Study
- 1.6 Significant of the Study
- 1.7 Limitations of the study
- 1.8 Definition of Terms
LITERATURE REVIEW
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Concept of Crypto security
- 2.3 Cryptography
- 2.3.1 DES – Data Encryption Standard
- 2.4 PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
- 2.5 Diffe-Hellman-Merkel Key Exchange
- 2.6 RSA- Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
- 2.7 The Impact of Modern Electronics On Crypto-graphical Systems
- 2.8 Application of Cryptology in Private and Commercial Life
- 2.9 Cryptography Keys
- 2.9.1 Symmetric-Key Cryptography
- 2.10 Theoretical Framework
- 2.10.1 Ciphers
- 2.10.1.1 Substitution Ciphers
- 2.10.1.2 Transposition Cipher
- 2.10.2 Public Key Cryptography
- 2.10.3 Public-Key Certification
- 2.10.4 Certification Authority (CA)
- 2.10.5 Message Security
- 2.10.5.1 Message Privacy
- 2.10.5.6 Privacy with Symmetric-Key Cryptography
- 2.10.5.7 Privacy with Public Cryptography
- 2.10.5.8 Message Authentication
- 2.10.5.9 Integrity
- 2.10.5.10 Non-repudiation or Data origin
- 2.10.6 Digital Signature
- 2.10.7 Signing the Digest
- 2.10.8 Key Management
- 2.10.8.1 Symmetric Key Distribution
- 2.10.8.2 Certification Authority (CA)
- 2.10.8.3 Session Keys
- 2.10.8.4 Diffie – Hellman method
- 2.10.8.5 Prerequisites
- 2.10.8.6 Procedure
- 2.10.9 Client-Server and Other Models
- 2.10.10 Client-Server Communication
- 2.10.11 Hosts Identification and Service Ports
- 2.10.12 Sockets and Socket-Based Communication
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
- 3.1 Methodology Adopted
- 3.1.1 Problem Identification Using SSADM
- 3.2 Analysis of the Existing System
- 3.2.1 Dataflow of the Existing System
- 3.2.2 Disadvantages of the Existing System
- 3.3 Analysis of the Proposed System
- 3.3.1 Data Flow Diagram of the Proposed System
- 3.3.2 Advantages of the Proposed System
- 3.3.3 Justification of the Proposed System
- 3.4 Functional Requirements
- 3.5 Data Requirements
- 3.6 High Level Model of the Proposed System
SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
- 4.1 Objectives of the Design
- 4.2 Cohesion and Decomposition High level Model
- 4.3 Control Center / Overall Dataflow Diagram
- 4.3.1 Proposed System Operation Flowchart
- 4.4 System Specification and Design
- 4.4.1 Input and Output Specification
- 4.4.2 Database Specification and Design
- 4.4.3 Data Dictionary
- 4.5 Choice and Justification of Programming Language
- 4.6 Program Documentation
- 4.7 Implementation Techniques
- 4.8 Programming Module Specification
- 4.8.1 Installation
- 4.9 Computer Hardware Minimum Requirement
- 4.10 Software Requirement
- 4.11 Personnel / User Training
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
REFERENCE
APPENDIX A - "SOURCE CODE"
APPENDIX B - "OBJECT PROGRAM"
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PRELIMINARY PAGES
- Title page
- Approval page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Table of Contents
- Abstract
INTRODUCTION
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Background of the Study
- 1.3 Statement of the Problem
- 1.4 Aim and objective of the Study
- 1.5 Scope of the Study
- 1.6 Significant of the Study
- 1.7 Limitations of the study
- 1.8 Definition of Terms
LITERATURE REVIEW
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The Concept of Crypto security
- 2.3 Cryptography
- 2.3.1 DES – Data Encryption Standard
- 2.4 PGP – Pretty Good Privacy
- 2.5 Diffe-Hellman-Merkel Key Exchange
- 2.6 RSA- Rivest, Shamir and Adleman
- 2.7 The Impact of Modern Electronics On Crypto-graphical Systems
- 2.8 Application of Cryptology in Private and Commercial Life
- 2.9 Cryptography Keys
- 2.9.1 Symmetric-Key Cryptography
- 2.10 Theoretical Framework
- 2.10.1 Ciphers
- 2.10.1.1 Substitution Ciphers
- 2.10.1.2 Transposition Cipher
- 2.10.2 Public Key Cryptography
- 2.10.3 Public-Key Certification
- 2.10.4 Certification Authority (CA)
- 2.10.5 Message Security
- 2.10.5.1 Message Privacy
- 2.10.5.6 Privacy with Symmetric-Key Cryptography
- 2.10.5.7 Privacy with Public Cryptography
- 2.10.5.8 Message Authentication
- 2.10.5.9 Integrity
- 2.10.5.10 Non-repudiation or Data origin
- 2.10.6 Digital Signature
- 2.10.7 Signing the Digest
- 2.10.8 Key Management
- 2.10.8.1 Symmetric Key Distribution
- 2.10.8.2 Certification Authority (CA)
- 2.10.8.3 Session Keys
- 2.10.8.4 Diffie – Hellman method
- 2.10.8.5 Prerequisites
- 2.10.8.6 Procedure
- 2.10.9 Client-Server and Other Models
- 2.10.10 Client-Server Communication
- 2.10.11 Hosts Identification and Service Ports
- 2.10.12 Sockets and Socket-Based Communication
SYSTEM ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
- 3.1 Methodology Adopted
- 3.1.1 Problem Identification Using SSADM
- 3.2 Analysis of the Existing System
- 3.2.1 Dataflow of the Existing System
- 3.2.2 Disadvantages of the Existing System
- 3.3 Analysis of the Proposed System
- 3.3.1 Data Flow Diagram of the Proposed System
- 3.3.2 Advantages of the Proposed System
- 3.3.3 Justification of the Proposed System
- 3.4 Functional Requirements
- 3.5 Data Requirements
- 3.6 High Level Model of the Proposed System
SYSTEM DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION
- 4.1 Objectives of the Design
- 4.2 Cohesion and Decomposition High level Model
- 4.3 Control Center / Overall Dataflow Diagram
- 4.3.1 Proposed System Operation Flowchart
- 4.4 System Specification and Design
- 4.4.1 Input and Output Specification
- 4.4.2 Database Specification and Design
- 4.4.3 Data Dictionary
- 4.5 Choice and Justification of Programming Language
- 4.6 Program Documentation
- 4.7 Implementation Techniques
- 4.8 Programming Module Specification
- 4.8.1 Installation
- 4.9 Computer Hardware Minimum Requirement
- 4.10 Software Requirement
- 4.11 Personnel / User Training
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 Summary
5.2 Conclusion
5.3 Recommendation
REFERENCE
APPENDIX A - "SOURCE CODE"
APPENDIX B - "OBJECT PROGRAM"
Disclaimer for Complete Material Utilization
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