Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Encryption and Cryptography
Raspberry Pi Foundation and National Centre for Computing Education
This course on encryption covered a range of different encryption methods, including the Caesar and Vigenère Ciphers, as well as modern symmetric and asymmetric encryption. Learners looked at the advantages and disadvantages of different encryption algorithms.
2 weeks, 2 hours per week
Dr Sue Sentance
Chief Learning Officer
Raspberry Pi Foundation
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Describe the general process of encryption and decryption
- Apply a Caesar Cipher and a Vigenère Cipher
- Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different encryption algorithms
- Compare symmetric and asymmetric encryption
- Demonstrate methods of breaking simple encryption schemes
- Describe how encryption is used in the modern world, and some of the possible ethical implications of this
Syllabus
- A brief look at the history of encryption
- The encryption and decryption process, and the importance of keys
- The Caesar and Vigenère Ciphers
- Symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes
- Public key encryption in the real world
- An introduction to quantum cryptography
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Issued on 31st March 2021
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