NETS1035

NETS1035 Applied Cryptography

In this course, students examine cryptography and secure communications. Topics include:

• Public/Private Key Algorithms
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Digital Signatures, Hashing and Compression
• Virtual Private Networks
• Disk and File Encryption
• Email Encryption
• Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security

An example link list for online resources that is actively maintained and covers much more than this course topic list can found at https://github.com/0x4D31/awesome-threat-detection.

Course Support Materials

Lesson Materials

1. Cryptography Introduction Presentation/Research/Links
2. Random Number Generation Presentation/RNG Research/Links
3. Symmetric Encryption Presentation/Symmetric Encryption Research/Links
4. Hashes Presentation/Lab/Links
5. Asymmetric Encryption Presentation/Asymmetric Encryption Practice/Links
6. Certificates Presentation/Certificates Practice/Links
7. Signatures Presentation/Lab/Links
8. SSL/TLS Presentation/TLS Practice/Links
9. SSH Tunneling Presentation/Lab/Links
10. VPNs Presentation/Links
11. Email and Crypto Presentation/Lab/Links
12. Disk Encryption Presentation/Lab/Links

Helpful Additional Links

• Encoding vs. Encryption vs. Hashing vs. Obfuscation
• Practical Cryptography For Developers ebook
• OpenSSL cookbook
• Applied Cryptography course on Udacity.com
• John Oliver on the value of strong encryption

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