Udacity

Applied Cryptography (Udacity)

Offered by Udacity,

Science of Secrets. Cryptography is present in everyday life, from paying with a credit card to using the telephone. Learn all about making and breaking puzzles in computing.

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Explore how secrets are written and shared, as well as what can go wrong when cryptography is misused or implemented badly.

What You Will Learn

Lesson 1
Perfect Ciphers

What makes certain ciphers perfect.
How the Lorenz Cipher was broken.

Lesson 2
Symmetric Encryption

Sending messages when two people share a secret.

Lesson 3
Key Exchange

Techniques to establish a shared secret.

Lesson 4
Asymmetric Encryption

Exchanging information using public key cryptosystems.

Lesson 5
Public Key Protocols

Encrypted key exchange
certificates
secure commerce.

Lesson 6
Using Cryptographic Primitives

How cryptography can be useful for anonymizing communication
voting
and digital cash.

Lesson 7
Secure Computation

Computing without exposing data.

Prerequisites and Requirements
This course assumes previous programming experience, comparable to what is covered by the Udacity CS101 course, as well as some understanding of probability and theory of computation and algorithm analysis.

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