Cybersecurity October Updates

Jennifer Campbell
Nov 5 · 2 min read

Here are some updates to the CodeHS Cybersecurity Course!

Improved Lesson Plans

The following lesson plans have been improved with new discussion questions, timing guidance, and more!

  • Digital Citizenship 2.5–2.7
  • ABC’s of Cryptography 4.1–4.6

New Activities

The following exercises can be found in the supplemental folder named Simulations.

  • Encrypt/Decrypt Simulation: Practice encrypting and decrypting a message using a key.
  • Cryptogram Game: Includes easy, medium and hard cryptogram challenges to prepare students for substitution encryption.
  • Caesar Cipher Encryption: Create a message and choose an encryption shift (key) to encrypt a message using the Caesar Cipher.
  • Decrypt Caesar Cipher: Copy and paste a message that has been encrypted using the Caesar Cipher. Choose the correct key to decrypt the message.
  • Improving Vigenère: Create a message to encrypt and a secret keyword or phrase using the Vigenère Cipher. Includes an advanced challenge to add more characters to the cipher to make it harder to crack.

Improved Activities

  • 4.3.5 - Decrypting Caesar: Added that this exercise is advanced, included more comments to explain the code shown, and clearer directions.

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