Activity Overview
Building on the concepts learned in Activity 3, students will learn about obfuscating passwords through a method known as “hashing.” This security function shows students how a plaintext password can be scrambled and encrypted by a hashing function, such as SHA-256, in such a way that makes it unreadable to hackers.
About the Lesson
For more information on this series of activities and set-up required, check out the Computer Science Resources page.