Public key infrastructure visualization

Authors:
Derek Ebeling;Rob Santos
Affiliations:
United States Air Force Academy;United States Air Force Academy
Venue:
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges - Papers of the Fourteenth Annual CCSC Midwestern Conference and Papers of the Sixteenth Annual CCSC Rocky Mountain Conference
Year:
2007

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Abstract

At the US Air Force Academy, information security is an emphasis area taught in several courses both within the Computer Science major and to all cadets. Several classroom visualization tools have been developed to help teach security concepts. One such tool for understanding Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) was designed and developed by students as part of a two-semester capstone course in software engineering. The development experience gave students a stronger understanding of how PKI works as well as how to communicate it visually to non-computer science students. This paper will describe the development process the students completed as well as the tool itself and our experience of the tool's effectiveness in the classroom.