Applied Cryptography

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.

• Perfect Ciphers
• What makes certain ciphers perfect.,How the Lorenz Cipher was broken.
• Symmetric Encryption
• Sending messages when two people share a secret.
• Key Exchange
• Techniques to establish a shared secret.
• Asymmetric Encryption
• Exchanging information using public key cryptosystems.
• Public Key Protocols
• Encrypted key exchange, certificates, secure commerce.
• Using Cryptographic Primitives
• How cryptography can be useful for anonymizing communication, voting, and digital cash.
• Secure Computation
• Computing without exposing data.