This course is designed, to introduce the fundamental techniques of cryptography and to see how these techniques can be applied to achieve confidentiality, data integrity, authentication (of message source and of identity) and non-repudiation. The course is approached from an non-mathematical perspective.

Target audience

~      IT Managers
~      Information Security Managers
~      Security Team Leaders
~      Security Team Members
~      IT Technical Staff
~      System designers and implementers

Course Content

~      Introduction
-The need for security
-Security services: confidentiality, data integrity, authentication (of message source and of identity) and non-repudiation
~      Basic concepts
-Symmetric Ciphers
- Public key techniques: public key encryption (including RSA), key-agreement (Diffie-Hellman), digital signatures (including RSA, DSA)
~      Cryptographic Key Management
- Key generation
- Key storage
- Key distribution: symmetric and asymmetric techniques, digital certificates (X.509), CAs
- Key usage: key seperation, key variants, certificates extension fields
- Key backup
- Key update
- Key destruction
- Key revocation: CRLs, OCSP
- PKI

Run in association with QT&C