SE 4472 - Information Security Notes

Table of Contents

• 01: Intro
• 02: Security Goals, Adversarial models, Formal security notions
• 03: Symmetric-key encryption, block ciphers, modes of operation, the DES and AES ciphers
• 04: Hash functions & The SHA hash function family
• 05: Message authentication codes & Authenticated encryption
• 06: Public-key cryptography
• 07: Digital Signatures.
• 08: RSA\/ECDSA Signature Schemes & Digital Certificates
• 09: Digital Certificates
• 10: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. Secure shell (SSH).
• 11: Randomness and pedudo-randomness. Key generation. Current recommended minimum acceptable key lengths.
• 12: Secure password generation and storage.