ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Encryption and securing data in transit
Students learn how data can be intercepted on a network and how encryption, HTTPS, TLS, VPNs and secured Wi-Fi protect it.
One content description (AC9TDI10K01, AC9TDI10P13) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Networked Systems and Access Control journey. All 21 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (21)
1
Interception of data on a network
2
Man-in-the-middle attacks
3
Risks of unsecured public Wi-Fi
4
Encryption and decryption
5
Plaintext
6
Ciphertext
7
Encryption key
8
Symmetric encryption
9
Asymmetric encryption
10
Public key
11
Private key
12
Sending a secure message with asymmetric encryption
13
Comparing symmetric and asymmetric keys
14
HTTP compared with HTTPS
15
Secure socket layer (SSL) protocol
16
SSL certificates and the handshake
17
HTTPS and the padlock
18
Protecting data in transit
19
Protecting data at rest
20
Virtual private networks (VPNs)
21
Securing a Wi-Fi network
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