Security in Popular Messaging Apps (WhatsApp vs Telegram): A Comparative Analysis

By Ndifreke Ating, Suraj Aderoju, and Dag-Emmanuel Ankrah Message-based applications have become a crucial element of our everyday communication in the digital era. With billions of users each, WhatsApp and Telegram are two of the most widely used messaging services worldwide for both personal and business communication. Examining how these applications do in terms of …

Crib-Draggle: A Better, Gamified, Crib-Drag Program

Background The One Time Pad (OTP) has been a staple of the cryptography community ever since it was invented; publications such as Academic Accelerator even claim that the method “in cryptography is an encryption technique that cannot be broken”[5]. As learned in class, the use of OTP requires a sequence of key bits (or Pad) …

Future of Account Sign-in and Website Identification Using Cryptography

Filipp Gorodkov|Valentine Adjei|Enyu Ma|Ishak Lutalo Nkonge|Kelvin Onome Otuagoma The usage of usernames and passwords for authentication has become a critical vulnerability within the cybersecurity landscape. Despite substantial efforts by different organizations and cybersecurity experts to improve the security of usernames and passwords for authentication, data breaches keep happening. In addition to this, the mental cost …

Lightweight Cryptography: The go-to Cryptography for IoT Security 

Charles Odunaiya, Dev Patel, Harsh Patel, Nina Onwuachi, Saniya Jabir Internet of Things (IoT)   Buzzwords like Smart cities, Smart homes, and Smart Wearables have recently gained popularity on all fronts, both on social media and traditional platforms. The technical description of these words is the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Thakor et al. …