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Integrated Encryption of Passwords for Enhanced Security Nirosh P1, Dr. Jitendranath Mungara2 1Student,
Department of Information Science and Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering, Karnataka, India 2Professor and HOD, Department of Information Science and Engineering, New Horizon College of Engineering, Karnataka, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***---------------------------------------------------------------------
Abstract - The present scenario poses a situation where a
License 8) Passport 9) Social Security Number 10) Software License etc. [1]. The users can store the information and maintain just a single master password for the application. This reduces the overhead of users needing to remember usernames and passwords for multiple accounts.
user needs to login to multiple websites and is expected to remember many user names and passwords for a variety of different applications. Remembering the passwords of many applications is a key convolution. The principle is to provide password vault programs that have been designed with a single interface capable of storing the usernames and passwords respectively. Users are required to remember the master password of the vault application in such situations. Subsequently, many security algorithms and security keys can be introduced to make it more difficult for hackers to crack the master password by encrypting the passwords and to enhance the overall strength and build of such applications. Key Words: Encryption.
Although as a short-term solution many web browsers offer to store the usernames and passwords, there are many dis advantages of saving information on these browsers. Firstly, what if the user’s machine is used by someone else, then they can access sensitive information of the other person without any permission. If the cache of the browser is cleared accidentally, then all the information is lost. The passwords saved here may or may not be encrypted hence may cause data leaks. The temporary database that the browsers use may not be designed specifically to store encrypted information hence may easily be hackable by external forces. Keeping all these factors in mind the password vault application is designed with some of the best security algorithms and with security keys (public and private keys) to make life difficult for the people who try to hack and fetch sensitive information.
Username, Password, Security Algorithm,
1.INTRODUCTION Every web application is designed in such a way that the login user always creates an account within the website that he/she launches. This will help in better maintenance of the website and helps track activities of each user. On day to day basis users launch multiple websites for reference and are required to create their login username and password for multiple accounts. It is always difficult to remember each password and username for these accounts as the complexity level of the password may vary from one website to another.
Paper is organized as follows. Section 2 describes how the password vault applications have come into use and cannot be hacked into easily. A brief description of the 256-bit encryption is also described to show proof for the same. Section 3 describes some of the existing password vault applications that have aided the users on a large scale. Section 4 presents the conclusion.
To overcome these difficulty users can store the usernames and passwords in their local machines in the form of text pads and local files. However, the saved files may get lost due to a machine format or due a virus attack or may even pose a bigger threat to the integrity of the user if his machine is hacked by external factors. In such cases if the user has stored some sensitive information such as bank passwords, account details, net banking details he may incur heavy losses.
2. RELATED WORK Many password vault applications have been designed and are existing in the real world. Millions of online users are reaping the benefits of such applications and the benefits include 1) Users don’t need to maintain a text pad to store the username and passwords 2) Users don’t need to store the information on their mobiles and tablet devices (which might get lost or be hacked into) 3) User don’t need to remember the information 4) They don’t need to worry about hacking as these applications are designed using bit encryption technology like AES256. To give a brief description of how 256-bit encryption works refer below:
How do we tackle this scenario where users are not exposed to security risks, yet they should be able to store the usernames and passwords in a single place? The answer to this lies in the password vault application. The application acts as a single interface where users can store information about 1) Credit Cards 2) Wireless Routers 3) Servers 4) Email Accounts 5) Bank Accounts 6) Databases 7) Driver
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