E-learning Tool For Education in Cryptography

Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Vasilis Katos

SCHOOL OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Panagiotis Paraschos

MSc in ICT Systems – October 2011

"Cryptography is about communication in the presence of adversaries" - Ron Rivest

"Cryptography is the science of writing in secret code and is an ancient art" - Gary C. Kessler

Cryptography is the study of mathematical techniques related to aspects of information security such as confidentiality, data integrity, entity authentication, and data origin authentication

Cryptography

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Cryptography

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Examples of Applied CryptographyPhone cards, cell phones, remote controlsCash machines, money transfer between banksElectronic cash, online banking, secure emailSatellite TV, pay-per-view TVImmobilizer systems in carsDigital Rights Management (DRM)

Examples

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It is a symmetric encryption method

Blaise de Vigenere (1586)

“Le chiffre indechiffrable" (The Unbreakable Cipher)

Vigenere

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Provide an easy, friendly e-learning tool

Make someone understand better the functionality of Vigenere

Dissertation Goals

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Papers regarding cryptography and its implementations through time

Relevant open source applications for educational uses in cryptography

Research Methology

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Turtle Chat with Vigenere

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Turtle Chat with Vigenere

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Turtle Chat with Vigenere

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Results

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It is an easy, friendly e-learning tool to help someone understand better the functionality of Vigenere in a chat application

It can be improved by adding further methods of cryptography (symmetric/ asymmetric)

Conclusions

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