TACKLING INSURGENCY USING CRYPTOGRAPHY

1.1           STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Insurgency has really caused destruction, poverty and many individuals have lost their life during this period. Insurgency has become the order of the day; people no longer live peacefully in their homes as a result of fear. In recent time, technologies has grown wide, information can be accessed by different people anywhere and at anytime. 

One major challenge in our present world is that communications are not secured. If an attempt is made to transmit a message over a public or private channel and it gets to a wrong hand (an adversary: someone who sees all communications occurring on the channel.) the message would be exposed, tampered with or lost. 

Therefore the use of cryptography is a very important issue in this present time to avoid data lost and access by other people.

1.2           MOTIVATION OF THE STUDY

Insurgency has brought about destruction, poverty and has endangered so many people's lives. One major way insurgents penetrate into a country is by gathering essential information about the country before setting their operations. They gather information so as to know how and when to push through with their plans.

Insurgency has really caused hazard and fear amongst every citizen in the country: which is actually the motivation behind this study.

1.3           AIM AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of this work is to develop a system which is responsible for encoding and decoding secret messages against insurgents. The system will be developed in such a way that only the user can have access to it and this will be done by the use of a password to ensure high rate of security.

Its objectives include;

                         i.                  To Prevent insurgents from monitoring secret messages in a country

                       ii.                  To secure information from access.