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 here. There is also a Teams session each Friday at 6pm.

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	27 Jan 2023	Ciphers and Fundamentals Unit	Lab Demo
3	3 Feb 2023	Symmetric Key	Lab
4	10 Feb 2023	Hashing and MAC	Lab
5	17 Feb 2023	Asymmetric (Public) Key	Lab
6	24 Feb 2023	Key Exchange	Lab
7	3 Mar 2022	Digital Signatures and Certificates	Lab
8	11 Mar 2023	Revision lecture and Test 1/Coursework	Mini-project/Coursework
9	17 Mar 2023	Test (Units 1-5) 40% of overall mark here
10	24 Mar 2023	Tunnelling	Lab
11	31 Mar 2023	Blockchain	Lab
12	28 Apr 2023	Future Cryptography	Lab
13	5 May 2023	Tokens and Services	Lab
14	12 May 2023
15	19 May 2023	Coursework Hand-in - 60% of overall mark (15 May)	Lab (Tokenization)

Any questions, contact us on Teams?