What are loop cards?

Loop cards are a great game that can be played individually or as a class. They are perfect for review key vocabulary or questions at the end of a topic or when revising for an exam.

Instructions

  1. Cut out the cards from the paper horizontally (but don't cut them in half!) and then shuffle them.
  2. Now start joining each question on the right hand side of the card to the matching answer on the next card.
  3. Carry on until all the cards loop together and you have competed the game!

Hint: Make sure that you set your paper to portrait to print 4 cards per sheet of A4 paper.

Edit Vocab

The process of recovering passwords from data that has been stored or transmitted in an encrypted or hashed form.
Password Strength
A measure of the effectiveness of a password in resisting unauthorized access.
Plaintext
The original message or data that is to be encrypted.
Autokey Cipher
"A polyalphabetic cipher similar to the Vigenere Cipher, but using the plaintext itself as part of the key sequence in order to overcome a weakness observed in the original Vigenere Cipher."
Symbol
A graphical representation used to represent something else, such as a letter or number in a cipher.
Zigzag Pattern
A pattern that moves in a back-and-forth motion like a zigzag
Rainbow Table
A precomputed table used in password cracking to reverse cryptographic hash functions and quickly determine the original password.
Rail Fence Cipher
A type of transposition cipher in which the plaintext is written diagonally on a criss-cross pattern.
Encryption
The process of converting plaintext into ciphertext using a cryptographic algorithm and a key.
Kasiski Examination
A cryptanalytic technique used to try and discover the length of the keyword used in a Vigenere Cipher by detecting repeating patterns in the ciphertext.
Password Cracking