Overview

Learning Outcome:

• Explore “adversarial thinking”

• Understand what cryptography could achieved

• Familiar with some common types of cryptography

• Appreciate intriguing attack & defend techniques

Table of Content:

• Introduction

• Encryption

• Hash

• Pitfalls

• History

In this session, we use CyberChef(online tool) for demo.

Visit: https://gchq.github.io/CyberChef/

CyberChef is an online web tool that provides common cryptographic primitives.

How to get more

• Descriptions of popular crypto primitives in wiki are usually quite accurate.

• Textbooks. Suitable for upper undergraduate level.

• Cryptography Engineering: Design Principles and Practical Applications, N. Ferguson, B. Schneier& T. Kohno.

https://www.schneier.com/books/cryptography-engineering

• Introduction to modern cryptography, J. Katz & Y. Lindell.

• Coursera: Cryptography I, Dan Boneh

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/courses/OnlineCrypto/