e-learning tool for education in cryptography supervisor: assist. prof. vasilis katos school of...
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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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