VCE Data Analytics U4O2: Cryptography to protect data
Students learn how ciphers, symmetric and asymmetric keys and hashing functions protect data at rest and in transit.
One content description from the full VCE Data Analytics - U4O2 - Cyber Security: Data Security journey. All 19 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (19)
1
Encryption and decryption
2
Protecting data at rest
3
Protecting data in transit
4
HTTPS and the padlock
5
Caesar cipher
6
Polyalphabetic ciphers
7
Vigenere cipher
8
Symmetric encryption
9
AES
10
Asymmetric encryption
11
RSA
12
ECDH
13
ECDSA
14
Comparing symmetric and asymmetric keys
15
Hashing functions
16
Using hashes to check data integrity
17
Why passwords are stored as hashes
18
Salting a password hash
19
Choosing a cryptographic technique for a scenario
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