Covers fundamental concepts of cryptography, including primitives, security, encryption, and authentication, exploring symmetric and public-key cryptography, key agreement, commitment schemes, and hash functions.
Explores the financial applications of blockchains, covering the definition, history, Ethereum, decentralized finance, smart contracts, tokens, assessment methods, challenges of double spending, digital signatures, and cryptographic hash functions.
Explores symmetric cryptography for integrity, emphasizing Message Authentication Codes and different encryption approaches to ensure data confidentiality and integrity.
Explores the shift to secure communications through the biometric passport case study, covering RFID, identity examples, MRTD, EAC, and cryptographic protocols.
