Applied Cryptography and Trust Module

Outline details

The assessments are here. This repository contains the code and labs for the module. Open up your Ubuntu instance, and downloaded from:

git clone https://github.com/billbuchanan/appliedcrypto.git

Some of the associated material will be hosted on this site here. Also, the VM for the module can be downloaded here.

Draft Timetable

The following is the draft timetable:

No	Date	Subject	Lab
2	23 Jan 2024	Ciphers and Fundamentals [Unit]	[Lab] [Demo]
3	30 Feb 2024	Symmetric Key [Unit]	[Lab]
4	6 Feb 2024	Hashing and MAC [Unit]	[Lab] Jean-Philippe Aumasson
5	13 Feb 2024	Asymmetric (Public) Key [Unit]	[Lab]
6	20 Feb 2024	Key Exchange [Unit]	[Lab] Bruce Schneier/Neal Koblitz
7	27 Mar 2024	Digital Signatures and Certificates [Unit]	[Lab]
8	5 Mar 2024	Revision lecture and Test 1/Coursework	Mini-project Marty Hellman [Here] /Coursework
9	12 Mar 2024	Test (Units 1-5) 40% of overall mark [Here]
10	19 Mar 2024	Tunnelling [Unit]	[Lab]
11	9 Apr 2024	Blockchain [Unit]	[Lab]
12	16 Apr 2024	Future Cryptography [Unit]	[Lab]
13	23 Apr 2024	Host/Cloud Security [Unit]	[Lab]
14	30 Apr 2024
15	7 May 2024	Coursework Hand-in - 60% of overall mark (15 May) [Coursework]