Year 11 Computer Science ATAR: Symmetric, asymmetric encryption and hashing
Students learn how symmetric and asymmetric encryption, digital signatures and hashing protect data and passwords, and how key sharing is kept safe.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Cyber Security journey. All 16 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (16)
1
Symmetric encryption
2
AES
3
The risk of sharing a symmetric key
4
Keeping an encryption key secret
5
Asymmetric encryption
6
Public key
7
Private key
8
Sending a secure message with asymmetric encryption
9
RSA
10
ECDH
11
ECDSA
12
Comparing symmetric and asymmetric keys
13
Hashing functions
14
Using hashes to check data integrity
15
Why passwords are stored as hashes
16
Salting a password hash
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