Monday, October 21, 2013

Cracking The Code & Prime Numbers

Cryptography involves the use of mathematics to provide privacy in electronic communications. When your internet browser shows a URL beginning with “https”, cryptography based on prime numbers is being used to protect your privacy.
http://cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/real-world/protect-privacy.html

 
Open the above link and find out more about cryptography.  List three things you learned. Have you ever created a secret code? (Post your answers.)

1 comment:

  1. Yes, I have made up several secret codes with different friends throughout my years of school. It's a lot of fun to write and decode notes!

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