Benchmarking Key Loggers for Gathering Digital Evidence on Personal Computers
The paper tackles the topic, benchmarking keyloggers for gathering evidence on personal computers. It provides a background which creates the understanding of keyloggers as computer programs. The paper provides the objectives of the study and offers a literature review on the topic. It provides the methods used to conduct the study, data regarding system analysis and design, and implementation.
Digital Signature Scheme Based on Factorization
The objective of this study is to discuss an issue in cryptography or computer security. Digital signatures are described as "an analog of handwritten signatures" which are based on "the physically idiosyncratic way of signing one's name. But they can be easily forged." (Grabbe, 1998) The digital signature is "a mathematical method of attaching one's identity to a message" and is held to be more difficult to forge than a handwritten signature." (Grabbe, 1998) Public key cryptography is used for digital signatures and is such that uses two keys: (1) Take an ordinary plain-text message and apply one of the keys to it in an encryption process, and you end up with a scrambled or "encrypted" (or, in the current context, "signed") message; and (2) Apply the other key to the scrambled message in a decryption process, and you end up with the original plain-text message. (Grabbe, 1998)