Ciphers and Fundamentals.
Symmetric (Secret) Key. AES, ChaCha20.
Hashing and MAC. MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256.
Asymmetric (Public) Key. RSA and Elliptic Curve.
Key Exchange. Diffie-Hellman, ECDH.
Digital Signatures and Digital Certificates.
Tunnelling. Tunnelling, including SSL/TLS.
Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain. Outline of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoins, Ethereum and more.
Future Cryptography. Outline of areas such as Homomorphic Encryption, Zero-knowledge proofs and Quantum-robust cryptography.
Host security.

The module uses Teams as the main communication channel. There is also a Teams session each Friday at 6:30pm.

Module outline

An introduction video is here:

and a Doodle:

We will be using a Ubuntu machine for the practical elements of the module. The VM can either be sourced on vSoC or can be downloaded from here. You can download VMWare Workstation or VMWare Fusion from here. A demo of using the VM is here:

Draft Timetable

The following is the draft timetable:

No	Date	Subject	Lab
2	28 Jan 2022	Ciphers and Fundamentals Unit	Lab Demo
3	4 Feb 2022	Symmetric Key	Lab
4	11 Feb 2022	Hashing and MAC	Lab
5	18 Feb 2022	Asymmetric (Public) Key	Lab
6	25 Feb 2022	Key Exchange	Lab
7	4 Mar 2022	Digital Signatures and Certificates	Lab
8	11 Mar 2022	Revision lecture and Test 1/Coursework	Mini-project/Coursework
9	18 Mar 2022	Test (Units 1-5) 40% of overall mark
10	25 Mar 2022	Tunnelling	Lab
11	1 Apr 2022	Blockchain	Lab
12	8 Apr 2022	Future Cryptography	Lab
13	29 Apr 2022		Lab
14	6 May 2022		Lab
15	13 May 2022	Coursework Hand-in - 60% of overall mark

Any questions, contact us on Teams?