Shuffle, Cut, and Learn: Crypto Go, a Card Game for Teaching Cryptography
| Autor: | Álvaro Planet Palomino, Ignacio Cascos, Ana I. González-Tablas, María Isabel González Vasco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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serious games
Boosting (machine learning) General Mathematics media_common.quotation_subject Cryptography 02 engineering and technology computer.software_genre Perception 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Computer Science (miscellaneous) game based learning Tertiary level Engineering (miscellaneous) media_common Multimedia business.industry lcsh:Mathematics 05 social sciences STEM education 050301 education 020207 software engineering Information security Computer security model lcsh:QA1-939 symmetric cryptography Symmetric-key algorithm Computational problem business 0503 education computer |
| Zdroj: | Mathematics Volume 8 Issue 11 Mathematics, Vol 8, Iss 1993, p 1993 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2227-7390 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/math8111993 |
| Popis: | Cryptography is the mathematical core of information security. It serves both as a source of hard computational problems and as precise language allowing for the formalization of sound security models. While dealing with the mathematical foundations of cybersecurity is only possible in specialized courses (tertiary level and beyond), it is essential to promote the role of mathematics in this field at early educational stages. With this in mind, we introduce Crypto Go, a physical card game that may be used both as a dissemination and as an educational tool. The game is carefully devised in order to entertain and stimulate players, while boosting their understanding on how basic cryptographic tools work and interplay. To get a preliminary assessment of our design, we collected data from a series of test workshops, which engaged over two hundred players from different ages and educational backgrounds. This basic evaluation indeed confirms that Crypto Go significantly improves students&rsquo motivation and has a positive impact in their perception and understanding of the field. |
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