Ethical Hacking: Cryptography (2019)

Course details

While the science of cryptography—in which data is mathematically scrambled—has roots in the protection of top-secret military communications, modern cryptography helps secure information for anyone with an email account. Cryptography techniques and practices are used for authentication, data integrity, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. In this course, Stephanie Domas takes this traditionally complex topic and breaks it down into understandable and approachable segments. Stephanie covers the basic principles of cryptography and the most popular algorithms (and how they're used,) as well as attack strategies and methodologies. Learn about the different types of cyphers, hashing, digital certificates, public key infrastructure (PKI) components, and more.

Note: The Ethical Hacking series maps to the 20 parts of the EC-Council Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) exam (312-50) version 10.

Learning objectives
Different types of cryptography
Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
Cryptographic hashing
How digital certificates work
Public key infrastructure (PKI) components
Protocols that use cryptography
Common types of cryptographic attacks

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Why become an ethical hacker
02 - What you should know

1. Cryptography Basics

03 - What does cryptography mean
04 - Different types of cryptography

2. Ciphers

05 - Different types of ciphers
06 - Symmetric encryption
07 - Asymmetric encryption
08 - Mixing asymmetric with symmetric

3. Hashing

09 - Cryptographic hashing

4. Digital Certificates

10 - How they are used
11 - Trust models

5. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

12 - Summary of exam expectations
13 - Digital certificates and signing
14 - Cryptographic key escrow

6. Applied Uses of Cryptography

15 - Protocols that use cryptography
16 - Why encrypt your filesystem

7. Cryptographic Attacks

17 - Types of attacks
18 - Real-world exploits
19 - Code-breaking methodologies

Conclusion

20 - Summary of exam expectations