Applied Cryptography and Trust Module

Outline details

Some of the associated material will be hosted on this site 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

If you need to update the code, go into the appliedcrypto folder, and run:

git pull

Make your own VM:

• sudo apt install python3-pip
• pip3 install pycrytodome
• pip3 install padding
• pip3 install libnum
• pip3 install passlib

The VM for the module can be downloaded here

Draft Timetable

The following is the draft timetable:

No	Date	Subject	Lab
2	29 Jan 2021	Ciphers and Fundamentals Unit	Lab [Link] Demo [Link]
3	5 Feb 2021	Symmetric Key Unit	Lab [Link] Demo [Link]
4	12 Feb 2021	Hashing and MAC Unit	Lab [Link]
5	19 Feb 2021	Asymmetric (Public) Key Unit	Lab [Link]
6	26 Feb 2021	Key Exchange Unit	Lab [Link]
7	5 Mar 2021	Guest lecture	Mini-project/Coursework [Link]
8	12 Mar 2021	Trust and Digital Certificates Unit	Lab [Link]
9	19 Mar 2021	Test (Units 1-5) [Study guide]
10	26 Mar 2021	Tunnelling Unit	Lab [Link]
11	23 Apr 2021	Blockchain Unit	Lab [Link]
12	30 Apr 2021	Future Cryptography Unit	Lab [Link]
13	7 May 2021	Tokens, Authorization and Docker Unit	Lab [Link]
14	14 May 2021	Trusted Hosts Unit
15	21 May 2021	Coursework Hand-in [Draft]