Master-Thesis

The aim of the CrypTool software is to present cryptographical primitives and notions.  This should be done in an easy to use way for learning and teaching. To a large extent software engineering is necessary to achieve that. However, also a substantial theoretical background is important to make it a really helpful tool.

The following (software engineering focussed) proposals may serve as a basis for discussion:

• Extension of the visualisation component for prime numbers

  What has been done: The available software technology of .NET and WPF has been analysed and inclusion of C++ libraries like GMP using wrappers in managed code has been considered, organization in single threads allows high user interactivity. What has to be done: add more and deeper theory, ...

• Add visual cryptography such that users can experiment and print slides. Partial source code is available.

• Maybe use cryptool2 as framework to implement methods of the book "Modern Computer Algebra" by von zur Gathen & Gerhard.
  Since both cryptool2 and JCT have a pure plugin-based architecture plugins can be written piece by piece and the CrypTool-Open-Source  groups makes sure that plugins are maintained and adapted to new architectures.

• Explanations and tests on randomness

• Presentation of factoring polynomials

• Presentation of cryptographic protocols

• Interactive tutorial on number theory