1 Network Security Assignment Muhammad Sabeeh Waqas

Military College of
Signals
National University of
Sciences & Technology
Network Security
ASSIGNMENT
Submitted to:
Asst Prof Dr. Muhammad Waseem Iqbal

Submission Date: 30/01/2023

Submitted by

S. No Names

1 Muhammad Sabeeh Waqas

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Task00: Downloading Symantec encryption desktop

1) Search for Symantec encryption desktop

2) From softpedia.com download Symantec Encryption Desktop

3) The download starts

4) After downloading, unzip the file and click to install.

5) Installing

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Task01: KEY GENERATION

Once the software is installed on your computer. The next stage is the generation and
installation of your PGP Key.
1. Open Symantec Encryption Desktop

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2. Select PGP keys

3. Click on file and New PGP Key

4. Follow the Generation Wizard, but note the following

(In Advance key settings)

 When asked for Key Pair Type, select RSA and NOT Diffie-Hellman/DSS
 When asked to choose a Key pair size, select 2048 bits
 When asked about Key Pair expiration, select "Key Pair Never Expiring"
 When asked to enter a Pass Phrase, you should select something that has a mixture of
characters.

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A window will come up called "PGP Keys" showing your new key.

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Click the right hand mouse button over your key and select "EXPORT".

Click the box "Include Private Keys" and save the file with our name to the Desktop so
it is always accessible

Tray Icon:

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Task 02: UPLOAD YOUR PUBLIC KEY

You can exchange public keys by email attachment, with your recipient. Connect to the
Web and Open Symantec Encryption Desktop.
Select PGP Keys. Your PGP Key window comes up with several keys, and your key is
with your name... Put the mouse over your key and click the right hand button. Select
"Send to" and then "Domain Server" which is like idap://keyserver.pgp.com:389 and

follow the Generation Wizard

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Open you email with which you generated the key and complete the verification
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Task 03: DOWNLOADING PUBLIC KEYS

Go to tools and select search for keys

then select "Server" from the top of the PGP Keys window, then Type in the email address
of whoever’s Public Key you are trying to locate and then hit “Search" button

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and their key will appear in the main search window.

Select it and press add to my key ring, and that's it!!

Close the search window and look in the main PGP Keys List. You'll see the one you have
downloaded and you can use this at any time

This is repeated for each party you want to be in contact with using encrypted mail or you
can go to the website https://Keyserver2.pgp.com and download the key from there.

Task04: EXCHANGING PUBLIC KEY BY EMAIL

The problem with using the web to download public keys is that the particular key might
be redundant. It is a simple operation to exchange public keys by email.
Sending Your Public Key by E-Mail
 Select PGP Keys and the PGP keys window opens

 Locate your public key and drag it to the desktop with your mouse (depress the
left-hand mouse button over the key and with the button still depressed, drag it to
the desktop and release the mouse button).

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 Set up 'New mail’ and attach your public key file before sending.

 When the e-mail message is sent, your public key file will be delivered as an
attachment.
 Delete your public key icon from the desktop or move it somewhere convenient
(such as 'My Documents') for future use.

Task 06: Adding a Third Party's Public Key by E-Mail

1. You should receive the public key as an email attachment in *.asc format. Save it
to the desktop.

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2. Select PGP Keys and the PGP keys window opens

3. Simply drag and drop the new key from the desktop into the body of the PGP keys
window.

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4. Delete the public key icon from the desktop.

USING PGP FOR SECURE EMAILS

This is what it is all about and where our whole direction is going to. At all times, we're
going to use one command on the Symantec Encryption Desktop Icon - the 'Clipboard'
command. If you click the right hand mouse button over the icon and go to "Clipboard",
you'll see four commands come up - 'Decrypt & Verify', 'Encrypt & Sign', 'Sign' and 'Encrypt'

Task 07: ENCRYPTING A MESSAGE

1. Start up your email program and write a message. Select all of your message

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2. Click on the Symantec Encryption Tray icon and select Clipboard and Encrypt &

Sign

3. Your message has been copied to the Windows Clipboard and PGP opens a menu
so you can select whose key you want to use.

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4. When you have found the key, 'drag and drop' it into the "recipient" space and click
OK
5. You'll be asked to enter your pass phrase, after which you click OK

6. Then go back to your email and press CTRL+ V and PGP pastes the encrypted
message over the original in your mail program, and you then send it in the
normal way

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Task 08: ENCRYPTING A MAIL ATTACHMENT (such as MSWord or jpeg file)

1. Save the file to the desktop

2. Open the file menu with the right hand mouse button, choose Symantec
Encryption Desktop and the click Add ‘filename.docx to new PGP zip’' and follow
the instructions.

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3. Open 'New Mail' , write your message in the text window, and before sending, click
'Insert' on the top of the window

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4. Select 'File Attachments' and in the new window opening up, select Desktop to
locate the encrypted file you wish to send and then select that file. OK it and the
file will become attached to the new email you want to send,

Task 10: DECRYPTING A MAIL ATTACHMENT (such as MSWord or jpeg file)

1. You've received an email with an encrypted attachment. Click to open the
attachment and take the option of opening the file to disc. Select Desktop and the
encrypted file attachment are saved there.

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2. Click the right hand mouse button over the file and select 'Symantec Encryption
Desktop'

3. Select 'Decrypt and verify'. You'll be asked to enter your passphrase. OK it

and the decrypted file appears on the desktop.
4. If it's a jpeg file, double click the left hand mouse button to open and select a
suitable viewer for the file, such as 'Image in'. Select the appropriate file
type such as 'jpeg' and open the viewer. The decrypted jpeg file will appear.

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Graded task
Now Email your public key as well as encrypted text message
(picture for boys) and (computer screen for girls) using
Symantec Encryption software to the person above you in class
attendance list. Each person is responsible to get the mail and
key from the person below.

1) Here is my key , also you can see Ali Naqi’s public key that I previously
grabbed from the email.

2) Saving the key as a ASCII file so that I can send it.

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3) Here is the image that I want to encrypt it with Ali’s public key
& sign it with my privaye key, then send it to Ali Naqi via
email.

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4) Opening the Symantec Encryption desktop for this image

5) We can see the image in Symantec Encryption Desktop.

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6) As I want to encrypt using Ali’s private key so I select

Recipients Keys.

7) Select ali naqi’s key

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8) Signing the image with my private key and saving the image

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9) Now emailing the encrypted and signed image to Ali

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10) Also encrypting the subject text with my private key.

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11) Now sending the email.

12) Now ali can first import my key to this PGP keys of
Symantec encryption desktop and then ( as shown above) can
see the image after verifying it with my public key and
decrypting it his private key.

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