SSCP Cert Prep: 5 Cryptography

Course details

The Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification is an excellent entry point to a career in IT security. To help you prepare for the SSCP exam, instructor Mike Chapple has designed a series of courses covering each domain. In this installment, Mike covers the objectives of Cryptography, the fifth domain, which comprises 9% of the questions on the exam. Topics include encryption, symmetric cryptography, and asymmetric cryptography. Learn about key management, working with digital certificates, and secure transport protocols. Plus, learn how to recognize and defend your organization against the most common types of cryptanalytic attacks: brute force and knowledge-based attacks.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Protecting data with cryptography

1. Encryption

02 - Understanding encryption
03 - Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
04 - Goals of cryptography
05 - Codes and ciphers
06 - Choosing encryption algorithms
07 - The perfect encryption algorithm
08 - The cryptographic lifecycle

2. Symmetric Cryptography

09 - Data encryption standard
10 - 3DES
11 - AES, Blowfish, and Twofish
12 - RC4
13 - Steganography

3. Asymmetric Cryptography

14 - Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA)
15 - PGP and GnuPG
16 - Elliptic curve and quantum cryptography

4. Key Management

17 - Cryptographic key security
18 - Key exchange
19 - Diffie-Hellman
20 - Key escrow
21 - Key stretching

5. Public Key Infrastructure

22 - Trust models
23 - PKI and digital certificates
24 - Hash functions
25 - Digital signatures
26 - Create a digital certificate
27 - Revoke a digital certificate
28 - Certificate stapling
29 - Certificate authorities
30 - Certificate subjects
31 - Certificate types
32 - Certificate formats

6. Transport Encryption

33 - TLS and SSL
34 - IPsec
35 - Securing common protocols
36 - DKIM
37 - Tor and perfect forward secrecy
38 - Blockchain

7. Cryptanalytic Attacks

39 - Brute-force attacks
40 - Knowledge-based attacks
41 - Limitations of encryption algorithms

Conclusion

42 - Continuing your studies