Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Crypto Lab - Public-Key Cryptography and PKI

Overview

The learning objective of this lab is for students to get familiar with the concepts in the Public-Key encryption and Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI). After finishing the lab, students should be able to gain a first-hand experience on public-key encryption, digital signature, public-key certificate, certificate authority, authentication based on PKI. Moreover, students will be able to use tools and write programs to create secure channels using PKI.

Lab Description and Tasks (PDF)

    For instructors: if you prefer to modify the lab description to suit your own courses, you can download the source files (Latex) from here.

Recommended Time: 1 week

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Student Feedbacks

To help us understand how effectively this lab has enhanced students' learning in computer security, we asked students to fill out an anonymous survey right after they finish the lab. We started to conduct the survey since 2007. The survey results depicted in the following are aggregate results over several years.
  • Survey Questionnaires (doc, pdf)
  • Survey Results (N/A)