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Cryptographic Protocols

This activity about cryptographic techniques illustrates how to accomplish a simple, but nevertheless seemingly impossible taskï¿½ï¿½ï¿½making a fair, random choice by flipping a coin between two people who donï¿½ï¿½_t necessarily trust each other, and who are connected only by a telephone. Use this activity to introduce learners to cryptographic protocols and internet security/privacy issues. Variations, extensions, background information, and...

Keywords:: Social Sciences, Problem Solving, NSDL, Reasoning and Proof, Security, Number and Operations, General, Science and Society, Computer & Information Sciences, Electronic Transaction, Young Engineers, And-gate, Mathematics, Distributed Coin-tossing, Risks and Benefits, Computing and Information, Engineering, Cheating, Boolean, Output, Electronic Transactions, Education, Cryptography, Logic, Information Technology, Soccer, Internet Privacy, Probability, Combinatorial Circuit, Or-gate, Representation, Binary Number, Ethics, Puzzle, Information and Communication, Information Systems, Data Representation, Data Analysis, Computer Engineering, Binary Numbers, Technology and Society, Poker, Internet Security, Digital Signatures, Data Collection, Computers, General Science, Input, Technology, Impacts of Technology, Digital Signature, Boolean Logic, Computer Science, Data Analysis and Probability, Cryptographic, Puzzles, Privacy

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Science and Technology / Computer Science

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Authors:: Ian Witten, Brian Mason Scientific and Technical Trust
Mike Fellows, Computer Science Unplugged
Tim Bell, Google Inc.
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: Grade School, Middle School, High School
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: No
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States