OpenPGP - a Java implementation

(Stefan's bachelor's thesis @ TUGraz)

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Motivation

OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography. It is based on PGP as originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. The OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages and signatures for exchanging public keys. IAIK's set of Java-based tools misses an implementation of PGP. Yet.

Project description

Goals

Develop a PGP implementation based on the IAIK toolkit suite.

Tasks

Study RFC 4480 and related background material
Implement a class library covering the PGP elements (Key Ids, Keyrings, ...)
Implement the different packets
Implement en-/decoding
Handle Algorithm Preferences
Test Interoperability with other implementations
Implement a user interface to demo the workings of the library

Deliverables

Project files (.zip, cleaned)
Documentation (inline, JavaDoc)
Readme (getting started)
Presentation (10 .ppt slides)

Estimated project schedule

Start: ~ Feb 2014
Month 1: Reading, IAIK tool evaluation
Month 2: Development
Month 3: Development, final deliverables

Institute

The Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK) is part of the Faculty of Computer Science at Graz University of Technology.

Open Science?

This thesis will be done following the/some open science principles. This basically means, I will try to publish everything I create, and use free/open formats to do so.