Applied Cryptography and Trust Module

Outline details

Some of the associated material will be hosted on this site:

https://asecuritysite.com/esecurity

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	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]