Secure Messaging with in-app user defined schemes
Mantena, Mohit (2020-06-08)
Secure Messaging with in-app user defined schemes
Mantena, Mohit
(08.06.2020)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020062946233
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2020062946233
Tiivistelmä
Cryptography has been the culmination of human trials and mistrials in an attempt to
keep information safe from unintended access. We have learned from our mistakes in
the past, and today with the help of both academician and software developers, we have
robust cryptographic technologies. Cryptography however, is a race between increasing
processing power of modern machines and the complexity of cryptographic systems.
With quantum computing on the horizon, our present cryptographic systems seem to fall
behind in this race. There is a need to catalyze research in the field.
Here, an application is proposed, which empowers users to write their own cryptographic
schemes. It hopes to create a platform where people can share their cryptographic
schemes and have an application that can help them share information securely. The
author hopes, that an application which sources cryptographic schemes from users, would
help catalyze research in the field. An application where the security implementation
is dependent on the whim of the user could prove a hard target for attack. The thesis
starts with a preliminary study of the Android platform. The thesis then analyzes im-
plementations of a few secure messaging applications and then delves into details of NFC.
Using the background information accumulated during the course of this study, the
authors attempt to formulate a sound implementation of a messaging application. The
thesis is also accompanied with a proof-of-concept Android application that checks the
viability of concepts discussed herein.
keep information safe from unintended access. We have learned from our mistakes in
the past, and today with the help of both academician and software developers, we have
robust cryptographic technologies. Cryptography however, is a race between increasing
processing power of modern machines and the complexity of cryptographic systems.
With quantum computing on the horizon, our present cryptographic systems seem to fall
behind in this race. There is a need to catalyze research in the field.
Here, an application is proposed, which empowers users to write their own cryptographic
schemes. It hopes to create a platform where people can share their cryptographic
schemes and have an application that can help them share information securely. The
author hopes, that an application which sources cryptographic schemes from users, would
help catalyze research in the field. An application where the security implementation
is dependent on the whim of the user could prove a hard target for attack. The thesis
starts with a preliminary study of the Android platform. The thesis then analyzes im-
plementations of a few secure messaging applications and then delves into details of NFC.
Using the background information accumulated during the course of this study, the
authors attempt to formulate a sound implementation of a messaging application. The
thesis is also accompanied with a proof-of-concept Android application that checks the
viability of concepts discussed herein.