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Computer Science Department
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CHAPTER ONE
1.0 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.
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 ofauthentication, 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.
.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
a. To understand and improve the computer data security through encryption of data.
b. To provide a means of safeguarding data in a system
c. To enhance the integrity of data
d. To facilitate the use of more sopheasted tool against hacking, cracking, bugging of a system.
e. To develop a platform to complement physical security.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Data security in these contemporary times is a must. For your secrets to be secure, it may be necessary to add protections not provided by your computer operating systems. The built-in protections may be adequate in some cases. If no one ever tries to break into or steal data from a particular computer, its data will be safe. Or if the intruder has not learned how to get around the simple default mechanisms, they're sufficient. But many attackers do have the skills and resources to break various security systems. If you decide to do nothing and hope that no skilled cracker targets your information, you may get lucky, and nothing bad will happen.
One of the most important tools for protecting your data 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.
1.5LIMITATIONS OF THE STUDY
Technology constraint: The problem encountered here is searching information about computer security through Data Encryption and Key Hash Algorithm and another problem is since the secret key has to be send to the receiver of the encrypted data, it is hard to securely pass the key over the network to the receiver.
Time constraint: the time giving for the submission of this project work was not really enough for the researcher to extensively carry out more research on this work.
Financial constraint: there was not enough money to extensively carry out this work.
1.6SCOPE OF THE STUDY
Computer Security has been defined as the art of protecting computer system and information from harm and unauthorized use .the most important security tool beyond human integrity used is cryptography. which is used to hide data from public view and to ensure that the integrity and privacy of any data sent across a network is not compromised. cryptography involves encryption and decryption process .the scope of this study covers the message security ,message integrity, user authentication and key management of messages.
1.6 DEFINITION OF TERMS
SECURITY: The set of accesses controls and permission that are used to determine if a server can grant a request for a service or resource from a client.
PASSWORD: An identity that defines an authorized users of a computer in order to access to the system.
SOFTWARE: A collection of computer programs that runs as a group to accomplish a set of objectives which could be referred to as job.
SYSTEM: An organized unit which composed of two or more inter related parts that functions together to achieve a particular goal.
ENCRYPTION: The process of converting ordinary information (plaintext) into unintelligible gibberish (that is, cipher text).
DECRYPTION: The reverse, moving from unintelligible cipher text to plain text.
ALOGRITM: This is a sequential way of solving a problem.
CRYPTOGRAPHY: This is used to hide data from public view and to ensure that the integrity and privacy of any data sent across a network has not been compromised.
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