CryptES: A Self Learning Application Software for Encryption

Abstract

Students face some difficulties in math theories when they want to learn the methods used in encryption and decryption. Learning these theories is not easy due to nature of encryption process based on mathematics and complexity. It is important to use visual and simulation software tools that helps students understand the steps of encryption techniques. CryptES software developed within the scope of our study can communicate with the user through interactive interfaces related to the encryption and decryption windows in order to provide easily understanding of some stages in text encryption and decryption operations. Thus, the user can trace the steps of the selected encryption technique and clues for the encryption process in these steps. Particularly, implementation of the creation of keys through a visual tool for AES and RSA encryption can help to facilitate the learning of key planning for the students and to comprehend these algorithms in short time.

Keywords: Text Encryption, Text Decryption, MD5, AES, RSA