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Teaching Tip Decryption and Reverse Engineering - An Applied Tutorial for a Security Programming Course

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: For professionals in the cyber security industry, knowledge of programming is a highly valuable skill.Therefore, it is crucial to teach programming courses to cybersecurity students in a way that aligns with industry needs.This paper presents a tutorial on encryption for a security programming course for undergraduate students specializing in cybersecurity.The challenge requires students to reverse engineer an encryption algorithm (using Python) and decrypt a text using the acquired knowledge.The tutorial also discusses the importance of programming skills for security students and why Python is an excellent choice for this purpose.The tutorial was conducted at a business school, receiving positive feedback from students and sparking increased interest in programming applications within cybersecurity.

Source: Journal of Information Systems Education

DOI: 10.62273/stwe8998

Authors: Gunjan Batra, Humayun Zafar, Pamila Dembia

Institution: Kennesaw State University

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W4410534394