Abstract:
This paper presents the implementation of a secure application for an academic institution that offers numerous services to both students and the faculty. The primary focus of this paper is to provide a technical implementation of a new architecture for encrypting the database. The scope of this paper mainly includes but is not limited to symmetric and public-key cryptography, authentication, key management, and digital signatures. The final results of this paper demonstrate that what security features one should implement in order to achieve a highly secured application. This paper presents the implementation of a stand alone system that can be implemented on any legacy systems, and still operates effectively. In other words, it is self sufficient in terms of the data that it stores.
