SemesterProject (Individual) Students will complete a research-oriented project in the form of a 5-page paper witha10-15 minutepowerpointpresentation. ProjectGrading: Youroverallsemesterprojectgrade

Security of WhatsApp 1 Christophe Bassono Summer: Cryptography Project Proposal 5/2 1/19 Security of WhatsApp WhatsApp is an extremely popular mobile messaging service which has over one billion users.

The new feature has been introduced by WhatsApp that messages are the end to end encrypted which means that no third party can read or hack our messages. Conversati on remain s between sender and receiver no one is able to hack other private messages. The photos we send to each other also end to end encrypted which can only be seen by sender and receiver. WhatsApp now secures every single call, message, picture, and vi deo we send to others are totally encrypted. It's mean no third party like police, hackers, and governments can read the messages. Not even WhatsApp have access to messages, calls, and videos. Super technology has been used to protect the application. Today WhatsApp has become compulsory in daily life, everyone is using WhatsApp to share messages and pictures. It has become important in study related works. But in many countries agencies require to have access to messages and calls to uncover terrorists ’ ill egal activities. Agencies can be given the code to have access to messages and calls. WhatsApp has made easy to connect it with computers which requires a password and code scanning process every device has its own code no other person can hack it. So it m eans our messages and phone calls are the end to end encrypted. WhatsApp also uses part of a security protocol developed by Open Whisper Systems, a company that owns a fully secure messaging app signal and it’s very good. WhatsApp architecture is in go od sca lability. The Server is designed in Erlang , Code is pushed every day , SSL socket has been used as the protocol to the WhatsApp pools , double authentication system has been used to login and technology of system health has been implemented to support message queue length as users are in creasing every day . The uniqueness of this project stems from the fact that WhatsApp's objective, in accordance with the proposed project, goes beyond where it has been most used. As previously mentioned, WhatsApp technology has been applied in the context of crypto -messaging, and very minimal explorations have been performed outside this practice area. As such, the proposed research will provide more k nowledge on how this WhatsApp approach can be used to protect other messaging applications and those exposed to the same security threats. In addition to providing critical information to the researcher and answering the underlying research questions to achieve the objectives set, the results will be essential for others. To begin with, the research will be of crucial use to potential users, students and programmers because the timestamp function can help to evaluate the timing of the encryption used in the messaging application. This implies that the general ledger system can be used in the audit process. Recently, WhatsApp was hacked. Spyware took control of a phone after a simple call was discovered . Security of WhatsApp 2 The re search will also help to provide more information on the technology used by hackers and a potential protection system that can be implemented to protect users' privacy. The study will also be useful for those who focus on learning the technology used by Wh atsApp to secure the application. References Cohn -Gordon, K., Cremers , C., Dowling, B., Garratt, L., & Stebila, D. (2017). A Formal Security Analysis of the Signal Messaging Protocol. 2017 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P) . doi:10.1109/eurosp.2017.27