Who Holds the Key: Free Encryption Game for High School
Who Holds the Key, a free Cybersecurity game
Day 2

Who Holds the Key

Predict who can read a message on its way, then test it.

Play the game

Free. No login. Runs in a browser.

What students do

Five trials. In each one, predict what one watcher can see, send the message through the tube and look through the window. Then change one protection and compare.

What it adds to the lesson

Who Can Read It follows one photo through four stops. Here students change the protection themselves and watch who can read the message each time.

Unit
Encryption and Cryptography
Lesson
Day 2: How Encryption Works Today
Printed activity
Who Can Read It
In the game
5 trials · No timer
Grades
9 to 12

More games in this unit: Codebreaker's Desk

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