< 1 minute read Download it here: The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos. Print it and read it to your kids! The idea is to try to teach kids “computer sense”, a bit like “number sense”. And I think it can help adults too to understand how HTTP is different from HTTPS, what “certificate” and “certificate authorities” are, and even […]
Read More The Magic Keys of Esprenevestos Children's Story4 minute read Or: the knight of Esprenevestos and the magic keys, part 2. Continued from part 1. So the kingdoms of Esprenevestos and Ios happily sent the “packets” (hollowed-out logs probably created by mermaids) to each other across the great ocean. Whenever someone from Esprenevestos locked the packet using Ios’ green key, they were sure that no […]
Read More Public Key Cryptography for 3 Year Olds (Part 2 of 3)3 minute read Or: The Knight of Esprenevestos and the Magic Keys Once there two countries, Esprenevestos and Ios, which were separated by a great ocean. In this ocean there were small hollowed-out logs adrift, called packets, with lids on them that floated back and forth from one land to the other with the tide. Some folks said […]
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