This document provides an overview of security and cryptography topics including:
- The basics of security including confidentiality, authenticity, integrity, and non-repudiation goals and how symmetric and asymmetric cryptography help achieve them.
- Symmetric cryptography algorithms like DES, Triple DES, and AES along with modes of operation like CBC.
- Asymmetric cryptography including key exchange with Diffie-Hellman and digital signatures with RSA and ECC.
- Cryptographic hash functions like SHA and their properties. Message authentication codes (MACs) that provide integrity.
- Public key infrastructure with certificates and how they establish authenticity of public keys.
- Attacks on algorithms, implementations, and protocols and the need for unpredictable