Mabroka Maeref and Fatma Algali, Sebha University, Libya

In the area of network security, the fundamental security principles and security practice skills are both required for students’ understanding. Instructors have to emphasize both; the theoretical part and practices of security. However, this is a challenging task for instructors’ teaching and students’ learning. For this reason, researchers are eager to support the lecture lessons by using interactive visualization tools. The learning tool CrypTool 2 is one of these tools that mostly cover all of the above. In fact, the evaluations of the effectiveness of the tools in teaching and learning are limited. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of an empirical evaluation for assessing CrypTool 2 tool. The effectiveness of this tool was tested using an empirical evaluation method. The results show that this visualization tool was effective in meeting its learning objectives.

Computer Security, Cryptographic Protocols, Visualization and Animation, Empirical Evaluation