The problem The Coconut solves

Cyber Attacks are increasing on a daily basis and so are the various methods employed by the hackers, compromising the privacy of people across the internet. And with newer data security regulations arising from the governments across the globe, this presents a need for a secure environment where data can be stored away from prying eyes, anonymously.

We believe privacy is a fundamental right to human beings, and a place where privacy is upheld was needed in today's Dystopian world which is fast becoming a single metropolis at ‘World Wide Web’.

This has led us to create ‘The Coconut’, a platform where we hope a resemblance of the utopian world is visible. A single place where privacy is the only hallmark.

With this vision, we are on mission to make sure your data needs are met. No one including us can infringe upon the privacy of your data.
The system designed by us follows every industry standard, making sure that no compromise is done in keeping your information secure.
We have created a seamless system, which provides a all in one solution for storing data securely and tamper proof. With the use of Blockchain technology we are able to store your data in a distributed, stable and trustless system. Making sure your data will never be lost.
With the usage of industry leading encryption and hashing algorithms your data will be ineligible to all. Our system uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and argon2 as the hashing algorithm. Both of which are pioneers in their field. To make sure your data is provided further security, we have used a salt, random and unique to each file, generated with CSPRNG.

Challenges we ran into

We went through various challenges. The firstmost was storing binary data in a block of blockchain and the other challenge we faced was finding out the industry standards in cryptography to make sure that the data of the user is not compromised in any way and it remains anonymous to everyone including administrators. We were able to achieve this after a rigorous search and by taking guidance from the mentors as well. After gaining all the necessary knowledge we were able to overcome the challenges we faced. Optimizing hardware complexity in making sure the time taken by the feature(Optical Character Recognition) does not exceed the limits while reading the content of the file.
We implemented a portal for the people to facilitate them in storage of any kind of Confidential Data. We have used HTML, CSS, Javascript, Django, AES Algorithm, ARGON2, Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for building the portal,encryption of data and their features. Along with them we used Python for building up the Optical Character Recognition which has been a way to encrypt the data in particular kind of files like PDFs and Pictures.We did the encryption of the data in the files using the AES Algorithm via Hashing and generating a key using ARGON2 that was the winner in The Password Hashing Competition(PHC) First and then storing it. To retrieve the same file we use Salt and IV (Initialisation Vector) with the user input password to generate a key.The key is no manner is stored anywhere across the platform. The Files that we can encrypt can be text files and scanned documents.