The objective of this course is to introduce students to a broad range of topics related to this discipline, including an overview of computer security, protection, disaster planning, and recovery. Risk analysis and security plans. Basics of cryptography. Public key cryptography and protocols. Security models, kernel design and systems testing. Database, network and Web security. The course discusses applications which need various combinations of confidentiality, availability, integrity and covertness properties; mechanisms to incorporate these properties in systems.
The objective is to design and implement a secure messaging application.
- SM must support 1:1 messaging and may support group chats (that’s optional)
- Text messages must be supported. Multi-media (such as pictures) are optional
- Message history is kept in encrypted form (at-rest encryption)
- Message history (for a particular conversation) can be deleted by a user. (This will not delete the message history on the other user's side.)
- Message transport uses end-to-end encryption with perfect forward secrecy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy)
- Users are authenticated (i.e.,they should be guaranteed to talk to the right person)
- Message integrity must be assured
- Users can plausibly deny having sent a message (see https://signal.org/blog/simplifying-otr-deniability/)
- Users can sign up for an account and also delete their account
- SM must be implemented in Python
Clone the repository.
git clone https://github.com/bhavanvir/SENG-360Change your directory to the root of the project.
cd SENG-360Install the dependencies.
pip install -r requirements.txtRun the server.
python server.pyRun the client.
python client.py