Overview
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Prepare for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner certification (SSCP). Review the objectives from the Cryptography domain of the SSCP exam.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Protecting data with cryptography
- Understanding encryption
- Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
- Goals of cryptography
- Codes and ciphers
- Choosing encryption algorithms
- The perfect encryption algorithm
- The cryptographic lifecycle
- Data encryption standard
- 3DES
- AES, Blowfish, and Twofish
- RC4
- Steganography
- Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
- PGP and GnuPG
- Elliptic curve and quantum cryptography
- Cryptographic key security
- Key exchange
- Diffie-Hellman
- Key escrow
- Key stretching
- Trust models
- PKI and digital certificates
- Hash functions
- Digital signatures
- Create a digital certificate
- Revoke a digital certificate
- Certificate stapling
- Certificate authorities
- Certificate subjects
- Certificate types
- Certificate formats
- TLS and SSL
- IPsec
- Securing common protocols
- DKIM
- Tor and perfect forward secrecy
- Blockchain
- Brute-force attacks
- Knowledge-based attacks
- Limitations of encryption algorithms
- Continuing your studies
