Cybersecurity Fundamentals
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Cryptography Part 1: Foundations

Choose cryptographic tools for secrecy, trustworthy messages and password storage, while recognising dangerous key and randomness mistakes.

200 min 800 XPSkills: Cryptographic goals, Hashing and password derivation, Authenticated encryption, Keys and randomness

What you'll be able to do

  • ›Distinguish confidentiality, integrity, authenticity and non-repudiation
  • ›Separate encoding, encryption, hashing and message authentication
  • ›Choose password derivation, salts and peppers for their different roles
  • ›Compare symmetric, asymmetric, block and stream encryption
  • ›Explain how key length, nonce handling and randomness affect security

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Cryptography Part 2: In Practice

Choose cryptographic tools, validate trust chains and manage keys through realistic protocol and incident decisions.

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