Dear course participants,

Welcome to the second week of our online course "Internet Security for Beginners". This week's topics are digital identities and passwords. We will discuss the strengths of passwords and alternatives to identify users in the Internet. Furthermore, we will talk about attacks on the digital identity and provide an excursion for the length of passwords.

Important Dates

• The deadline for the homework in week two and for the registration for the qualified certificate is March 12, 2018 21.00 UTC

If you have any questions - especially on the lessons, please feel free to post these and additional feedback in our discussion forum. You will always find someone who answers them, either your fellow learners or us. Please, do not use the help desk to ask questions concerning the course contents.

If you encounter problems of a more individual nature or bugs, please contact the support team (you can find the helpdesk button on the right edge of the openHPI website).

Best regards,
The teaching team