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  • StarPuppy
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    • 03 May `07, 8:18PM

      my Internet/Network Security FYP is about creating "a login website"(hotmail) of which if a hacker manage to sniff the password..it would be jumbled up

      now the thing is i am given a range of programming platform to learn/use as my teacher allow us to use anything we want

      (e.g: VB, ASP, Java, C++)

      so what would be easy to understand for the programming noob like me?

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    ndmmxiaomayi
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    ndmmxiaomayi
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    • 03 May `07, 8:22PM

      As far as I know, I don't know how to use VB, C++, C to create web applications.

      ASP and Java is possible...

  • DarthBart
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    • 04 May `07, 12:21AM

      Try using a hashing algo to digest the password
      I've used SHA1 in JSP back in my poly days to do that

  • thoreldan
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    • 04 May `07, 8:21AM

      TS:

      are you told to invent a simple algorithm yourself?
      or
      make use of available encryption algorithm?

  • StarPuppy
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    • 04 May `07, 8:53AM
      Originally posted by thoreldan:
      TS:

      are you told to invent a simple algorithm yourself?
      or
      make use of available encryption algorithm?

      both are allowed but i would like to try my hand of making one myself

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  • hisoka
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    • 04 May `07, 8:55AM

      how will the hacker sniff out the password? hack into the company database? keyloggers on the user computer? tracking of the packets sent/received?

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    ndmmxiaomayi
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    • 04 May `07, 9:01AM

      I wouldn't say to invent, particularly if one has totally what security is about, what encryption is about, what's PKI, what's hashing, what's this and what's that.

      Make use of existing algorithms.

      If you really want to create a whole new algorithm, go Counterpane and read up.

  • StarPuppy
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    • 04 May `07, 9:02AM
      Originally posted by hisoka:
      how will the hacker sniff out the password? hack into the company database? keyloggers on the user computer? tracking of the packets sent/received?

      it is assumed that the data is being sniffed

      so a encyrpted algorithim is needed

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    ndmmxiaomayi
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    • 04 May `07, 9:03AM
      Originally posted by hisoka:
      how will the hacker sniff out the password? hack into the company database? keyloggers on the user computer? tracking of the packets sent/received?

      Tracking of packets...

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    ndmmxiaomayi
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    • 04 May `07, 9:05AM
      Originally posted by StarPuppy:
      it is assumed that the data is being sniffed

      so a encyrpted algorithim is needed

      Sure?

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  • l0st-s0ul
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    • 04 May `07, 9:30AM

      There are various layers of encryption u could apply.

      At network layer - IP Security
      At transport layer - SSL
      At application layer - S/MIME

      Since ur main concern is confidentiality, all of the protocols above provides a form of encryption. U could also add authentication as an additional form of security.

      As for the platform used, I would say to use what u are most comfortable with.

  • o0Nite0o
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