Defining Cryptography
Beginner
- 16 videos | 54m 27s
- Includes Assessment
- Earns a Badge
Cryptography, and understanding its limits and pitfalls, is essential to protecting data. Discover how cryptography can be used to protect and secure data, as well as the importance of data integrity and key generation.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
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Describe and identify the reasons for having and using cryptography
Recognize historical uses of cryptography and their relevance to cryptography today
Use and identify basic cryptographic terminology
Describe why cryptography is difficult to get right and how poor cryptography can give you a false sense of security
Identify the different types of cryptography and how cryptographic algorithms can be verified and validated
Describe basic export controls and limits that can be imposed on cryptography used around the world
Describe how cryptography can keep data confidential within limits
Describe why data integrity is an integral part of cryptography -
Define how cryptography can provide a means to authenticate an entity
Describe how cryptography can be used to prove, with high certainty, that an action or statement is associated with an entity
Recognize the difference between blocks and key sizes as they apply to cipher algorithms
Describe and perform padding operations to data for block ciphers
Describe how to encode encrypted data for easier storage or transport
Describe the purpose of an initialization vector for a cipher algorithm and how nonces can be used to protect small datasets
Describe how entropy is used in generating random numbers and how that entropy is critical to the strength of a cryptographic key
Describe the creating, or generating, of keys and how the key strength is critical to cryptographic ciphers
IN THIS COURSE
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5m 42s
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3m 14s
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3. Describing Cryptographic Terminology4m 46s
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4. Defining Why Cryptography is Difficult5m 25s
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5. Identifying the Current State of Cryptography2m 44s
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6. Describing Export Controls on Cryptography2m 16s
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7. Describing How Cryptography Provides Confidentiality3m 17s
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8. Recognizing the Need for Data Integrity3m 27s
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9. Defining Cryptography Authentication2m 39s
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10. Applying Non-repudiation to Cryptography2m 48s
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11. Distinguishing between Block and Key Sizes2m 35s
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12. Using Padding5m 40s
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13. Formatting the Output2m 20s
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14. Using Nonces and the Initialization Vector2m 19s
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15. Identifying and Using Entropy2m 9s
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16. Creating or Generating Keys3m 8s
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