A four-session introduction to understanding and building secure cryptosystems targeted to software engineers and project managers without previous background in cryptography.
This series of lectures was developed for MicroStrategy, Inc., and given at the AMC Movie Theater in Tyson's Corner Mall, Falls Church, Virginia in October 2013.
Day 1: Symmetric Cryptosystems
Annotated Slides (including Challenge Puzzle!)
Day 2: Using (and Misusing) Symmetric Cryptosystems
Randomness, Dual-EC PRNG; Cipher Modes (Storing Encrypted Files); Managing Passwords
Day 3: Public-Key Protocols
Key Agreement, Asymmetric Cryptography, RSA, Public-Key Protocols, Digital Signatures, SSL/TLS, Certificates
Day 4: Future of Cryptography
Biometrics, Secure Computation, Automatic Protocol Checking
