The Architecture of the Internet · Networks & Security

Cybersecurity and Encryption

Investigating methods for protecting data integrity and privacy through symmetric and asymmetric encryption.

Key Questions

  1. 1How can two parties share a secret over a public and monitored channel?
  2. 2What is the balance between individual privacy and national security in encryption policy?
  3. 3How do human factors contribute more to security breaches than technical failures?

Common Core State Standards

CSTA: 3A-NI-06CSTA: 3A-NI-07
Grade: 9th Grade
Subject: Computer Science
Unit: The Architecture of the Internet
Period: Networks & Security

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