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Secure Email Message Using Genetic Algorithm - Based Elliptic Curve Cryptography Systems
Author name:
محمد حسن حالوب
Supervisor name:
Haider M. Abdul - Nabi
General topic:
Computer Science
Specific topic:
Computer Science
Degree:
Master
University:
University Of Basrah - College Of Science
Language:
English
University location:
Basrah
First pages:
28T754 - p.pdf
Abstract:
Email is a service for exchanged messages between group of people (sender and receiver) using communication network. Nowadays people, companies, and business sectors are using email in the official communications. There are a lot of threats on the email service and the most importantly one is the eavesdropping. Some email messages are very important and must have a level of security during exchange of them.The current study uses hash function to add data integrity by applying Secure Hash Algorithm - 1(SHA - 1). This study uses Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm to add authentication and non - repudiation to the email message sender.Encrypt of an email message is a solution to overcome the eavesdropping. Hence, the attacker can obtain the email message but cannot read it without the key. The encryption algorithm, which is used, is Elliptic Curve Cryptography. This algorithm has a strong encryption, high level of security, and small key size compared to the RSA algorithm.The contributions of this thesis are : proposes a new method based on genetic algorithm to select the most effective parameters of the Elliptic Curve Cryptography (a,b); and proposes four encryption methods : updated symmetric Elliptic Curve Cryptography, modified Menzes - Vanston Elliptic Curve Cryptography, hybrid symmetric and asymmetric Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and hybrid Menzes - Vanston Elliptic Curve Cryptography and AlGamal Elliptic Curve Cryptography.The proposed methods are compared against previous techniques. It is found that these methods outperform the previous techniques in terms of the encryption/decryption processing time and the level of security.
