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.
Trust 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 5:30pm.

Module outline

An introduction video is here:

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	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	Tunnelling Unit	Lab [Link]
10	26 Mar 2021	Test 1 (Units 1-5) [Study guide]
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]

Any questions, contact us on Teams?