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Bridging Security Primitives and Protocols: A Digital LEGO Set for
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This project tries to develop an innovative digital construction
set that integrates the achievements in security education and
visualization. Based on this integration, the PIs are designing a
comprehensive suite of instructional demonstrations and hands-on
experiments to assist students to bridge the security primitives
and protocols. This approach applies the pedagogical methods learned
from toy construction sets by treating security primitives as LEGO
pieces and protocols as construction results. While the automatic
demonstrations of protocol decomposition expose the relationship among
the primitives and protocols, the hands-on experiments provide an
effective training for students to apply primitives flexibly during
protocol design. The modularized structure of the proposed approach
also enables easy extensions by teachers and students.
The digital LEGO set, the comprehensive suite of demonstrations
and experiments, and corresponding visualization tools will improve
information assurance courses by:
- Helping students bridge the security primitives and protocols
and improving their understanding of the course contents
- Cultivating student skills to flexibly apply primitives to the
design and evaluation of security protocols under various requirements
- Providing a friendly and encouraging platform and a group of demonstration
and experiment samples to assist instructors to prepare their course materials
- Enabling instructors to easily share, expand, and modify their course materials
Investigators
- Aidong Lu, Assistant Professor,
CS Department, UNC Charlotte
- Weichao
Wang, Assistant Professor, SIS Department, UNC Charlotte
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
- Lane Harrison, Undergraduate Student
- Ver Cher, Undergraduate Student
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A Digital Lego Set and Exercises
for Teaching Security Protocols,
in Proceedings of
Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), pp 26-33, Dallas, June 2008.
W. Wang, A. Lu, L. Yu, and Z. Li.
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Volume Illustration Using Wang Cubes, ACM Transactions on
Graphics, vol. 26, 2007.
Aidong Lu, David S. Ebert, Wei Qiao, Markus Kraus, Benjamin Mora.
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Shape-aware Volume Illustration, Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 26, 2007.
Wei Chen, Aidong Lu, David S. Ebert.
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Stateless Key Distribution for Secure Intra and
Inter-group Multicast in Mobile
Wireless Networks, Elsevier Computer Networks,
Volume 51, Issue 15, pp 4303--4321, Oct. 2007.
W. Wang and T. Stransky.
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Interactive Wormhole Detection and Evaluation
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Information Visualization Journal (IVS), Volume 6, Issue 1, pages 3--17, Jan. 2007.
W. Wang and A. Lu.
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Homogeneous Security in Heterogeneous Networks:
Towards a Generic Security Management Protocol,
in Proceedings of Military Communications
Conference (MilCom), 2007.
Justin P. Rohrer, W. Wang,
and James P.G. Sterbenz.
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Interactive Storyboard for Overall Time-Varying Data Visualization,
accepted to IEEE Pacific Visualization Symposium, 2008.
Aidong Lu, Han-Wei Shen.
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A Digital Lego Set and Exercises
for Teaching Security Protocols,
presented at Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education (CISSE), Dallas, June 2008.
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Related Courses
This project is funded by the NSF
Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program. Investigators are
Aidong Lu and Weichao Wang at UNC Charlotte.
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