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Instant messaging is an application that is widely used to communicate. Based on the wearesocial.com report, three of the five most used social media platforms are chat or instant messaging. Instant messaging was chosen for communication because it has security features in log in using a One Time Password (OTP) code, end-to-end encryption, and even two-factor authentication. However, instant messaging applications still have a vulnerability to account theft. This account theft occurs when the user loses his cellphone. Account theft can happen when a cellphone is locked or not. As a result of this account theft, thieves can read confidential messages and send fake news on behalf of the victim. In this research, instant messaging application security will be applied using hybrid encryption and two-factor authentication, which are made interrelated. Both methods will be implemented in 2 implementation designs. The implementation design is securing login and securing sending and receiving messages. For login security, QR Code implementation is sent via email. In sending and receiving messages, the message decryption process will be carried out when the user is authenticated using a fingerprint. Hybrid encryption as message security uses RSA 2048 and AES 128. Of the ten attempts to steal accounts that have been conducted, it is shown that the implementation design is proven to reduce the impact of account theft.
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks are dynamic in nature and have no rigid or reliable network infrastructure by their very definition. They are expected to be self-governed and have dynamic wireless links which are not entirely reliable in terms of connectivity and security. Several factors could cause their degradation, such as attacks by malicious and selfish nodes which result in data carrying packets being dropped which in turn could cause breaks in communication between nodes in the network. This paper aims to address the issue of remedy and mitigation of the damage caused by packet drops. We proposed an improvement on the EAACK protocol to reduce the network overhead packet delivery ratio by using hybrid cryptography techniques DES due to its higher efficiency in block encryption, and RSA due to its management in key cipher. Comparing to the existing approaches, our simulated results show that hybrid cryptography techniques provide higher malicious behavior detection rates, and improve the performance. This research can also lead to more future efforts in using hybrid encryption based authentication techniques for attack detection/prevention in MANETs.