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 [Unit]	[Lab]
4	10 Feb 2023	Hashing and MAC [Unit]	[Lab] Jean-Philippe Aumasson
5	17 Feb 2023	Asymmetric (Public) Key [Unit]	[Lab]
6	24 Feb 2023	Key Exchange [Unit]	[Lab] Bruce Schneier/Neal Koblitz
7	3 Mar 2022	Digital Signatures and Certificates [Unit]	[Lab]
8	10 Mar 2023	Revision lecture and Test 1/Coursework	Mini-project [Here] /Coursework
9	17 Mar 2023	Test (Units 1-5) 40% of overall mark [Here]
10	24 Mar 2023	Tunnelling [Unit]	[Lab] Marty Hellman
11	31 Mar 2023	Blockchain [Unit]	[Lab]
12	28 Apr 2023	Future Cryptography [Unit]	[Lab]
13	5 May 2023	Host/Cloud Security [Unit]	[Lab]
14	12 May 2023
15	19 May 2023	Coursework Hand-in - 60% of overall mark (15 May) [Coursework]

Any questions, contact us on Teams?