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An electronic voting (e-voting) based interactive cybersecurity education curriculum has been proposed recently. It is well-known that assignments and projects are coherent parts of and important for any curriculum. This paper proposes a set of course projects, assignment design, and a coherent online plug-and-play (PnP) platform implementation. The PnP platform and the proposed exemplary assignments and projects, are systematic (derived from the same system), adaptive (smoothly increasing difficulty), flexible (bound to protocols instead of implementations), and interactive (teacher-student and student-student interactions). They allow students to implement parts of the components of this e-voting system, which they can then plug into the PnP system, to run, test and modify their implementations, and to enhance their knowledge and skills on cryptography, cybersecurity, and software engineering.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. DGE-2011117 and DGE-2011175. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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Initialization - Tables 3, 4 and 5 (Packets during initialization state).
Registration - Tables 6, 7 and 8 (Packets during registration statepackets during registration state).
Voting - Tables 9, 10 and 11 (Packets between voters and collectors in voting state).
Following Network Packet Design.
Due to the limitation on size of paper, we couldn’t present all the packets. However, they can be found on our website. We hope the packets presented above are able to provide readers an overall impression about the project.
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Zheng, M., Swearingen, N., Silva, W., Bishop, M., Zou, X. (2023). An Adaptive Plug-and-Play (PnP) Interactive Platform for an E-Voting Based Cybersecurity Curricula. In: Furnell, S., Clarke, N. (eds) Human Aspects of Information Security and Assurance. HAISA 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 674. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38530-8_4
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