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 2021	Ciphers and Fundamentals Unit	Lab Demo
3	4 Feb 2021	Symmetric Key	Lab
4	11 Feb 2021	Hashing and MAC	Lab
5	18 Feb 2021	Asymmetric (Public) Key	Lab
6	25 Feb 2021	Key Exchange	Lab
7	4 Mar 2021	Digital Signatures and Certificates	Lab
8	11 Mar 2021	Revision lecture and Test 1/Coursework	Mini-project/Coursework
9	18 Mar 2021	Test (Units 1-5) 40% of overall mark
10	25 Mar 2021	Tunnelling	Lab
11	1 Apr 2021	Blockchain	Lab
12	8 Apr 2021	Future Cryptography	Lab
13	29 Apr 2021		Lab
14	6 May 2021		Lab
15	13 May 2021	Coursework Hand-in - 60% of overall mark

Any questions, contact us on Teams?