cryptography

- Cryptography basics & history

- Cryptosystems architectures (e.g. symmetric, asymmetric)

- Confidentiality, Integrity, Authentication & other features

- Encryption/Decryption (e.g. DES, 3DES, AES, RSA)

- Hash functions (e.g. MD5, SHAx)

- Message Authentication Codes -"MAC"- (e.g. HMAC, CBC-MAC)

- Challenge-Response & Mutual Authentication

- Key agreement (e.g. Diffie-Hellman)

- Electronic Signature (e.g. RSA, DSA)

- Applications (e.g. PGP, Gnu-GPG)

- Exercises...