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Other => Found it on the Webs => : shad0wingfir3 September 02, 2014, 01:40:57 AM

: A cryptography 1 class is starting soon from coursera.
: shad0wingfir3 September 02, 2014, 01:40:57 AM

Here is the class syllabus.....and the link

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https://class.coursera.org/crypto-012, not sure how you all feel about Open style learning courses, so thought I would share. I don't know much about cryptography, but hopefully I learn something!
week 1

• Background and overview.
• One-time encryption using stream ciphers.
• Semantic security.

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week 2

• Block ciphers and pseudorandom functions.
• Chosen plaintext security and modes of operation.
• The DES and AES block ciphers.

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week 3

• Message integrity. CBC-MAC, HMAC, PMAC, and CW-MAC.
• Collision resistant hashing.

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week 4

• Authenticated encryption. CCM, GCM, TLS, and IPsec.
• Key derivation functions.
• Odds and ends: deterministic encryption, non-expanding encryption, and format preserving encryption.

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week 5

• Basic key exchange: Diffie-Hellman, RSA, and Merkle puzzles.
• A crash course in computational number theory.
• Number theoretic hardness assumptions.

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week 6

• Public key encryption.
• Trapdoor permutations and RSA.
• The ElGamal system and variants.