Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
World of Spies: Keeping Secrets
Purdue University
In this course learners investigate reasons for using cryptographic systems. By comparing common methods used and exploring ways to break them, learners evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various methods and then debate the necessity and effectiveness of modern day encryption and explore some ways that cryptography is used today.
4 weeks, 4 hours per week
Sheree Buikema
Instructional Designer
Purdue University
Benjamin Wiles
Center for Instructional Excellence Fellow and Director of Institutional Effectiveness
Purdue University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate reasons for encrypting information.
- Compare various methods for encrypting information.
- Apply logical thinking, linguistic patterns, and historical enciphering methods to encipher and decipher messages.
- Evaluate weaknesses of various encoding and enciphering methods.
- Debate the necessity and effectiveness of protecting information.
Syllabus
- Introduction to spying and the common United States agencies that collect intelligence
- Reasons for encrypting information
- Various ways information is encrypted
- Using logical thinking and linguistic patterns to break encrypted messages without a key
- How traditional decryption methods led to the modern day computer
- Why protecting information is important
- How information we provide in social media can compromise the safety of our personal information
- The effectiveness of modern day encryption
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Issued on 28th December 2017
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