Cryptography Fundamentals: Defining Cryptography Overview/Description Target Audience Prerequisites Expected Duration Lesson Objectives Course Number Expertise Level Overview/Description
Cryptography, and understanding its limits and pitfalls, is essential to protecting data. In this course, you will learn about how cryptography can be used to protect and secure data, different methods that exist to protect or transmit data securely, and the components that need to be understood to ensure data can be protected properly.
Target Audience
System administrators, database administrators, security professionals, software developers, and anyone who has to work with compliancy or regulations that require data protection.
Prerequisites
None
Expected Duration (hours)
1.5
Lesson Objectives Cryptography Fundamentals: Defining Cryptography
start the course
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 and 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
describe how OTP, or one-time pad, cryptography can theoretically provide perfect secrecy but has some significant limitations
describe and use a substitution cipher and understand the weaknesses that can be exploited by an attacker against these ciphers
describe and identify the features and use cases for symmetric-key cipher algorithms
describe and identify the features and use cases for asymmetric-key cipher algorithms
describe the use of steganography in encryption products to hide the fact data is even encrypted
describe the purpose of cryptographic hash functions and how they can be used in cryptography to provide data integrity
describe a digital signature and how it can be used for authentication and non-repudiation
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
identify the cryptographic algorithm to use
Course Number: sp_cryf_a01_it_enus
Expertise Level
Beginner