Cryptograp

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A Summary in Fifteen Minutes
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History of Cryptography
 Egyptian nonstandard
hieroglyphs
 Spartans Scytale
 Caesar cipher
 Religion text changed
in numbers (Hebrew)
 Poly-alphabetic cipher
 History Continued
 Arabs and the
complex principles
 Europeans 1379 the
first manual of crypto
was written
 1470 cipher disk was
invented Leon Battista
 1586 Blaise de
Vigenere
 World Wars
 WWI Zimmerman
telegram
 Code Talkers
 WWII Enigma
 Alan Turing
 Tommy Flowers
Modern Cryptography
A mathematical
algorithm that takes
plain text and changes
it into cipher text, for
security purposes.
 Symmetric-Key
 Symmetric-key
 One strong algorithm
 Two key must be kept
secret.
Stream ciphers
 Keystream
 XOR operation
 Linear feedback
 Nonlinear feedback
 Stop-and-go generator
 Shrinking generator
 Block ciphers
 Fixed length
 Feistel cipher
 Rounding functions
 DES
 AES
 Substitution-
permutation network
Asymmetric Key aka Public key
 William Joven
 Diffie-hellman
 RSA
 MIT
 UK
 Diffie Joven
Hellman Logic Piano
Cryptanalysis, cypherpunks
 Attacking cipher text
 Two types
 Professional and
amateur
 Weaknesses
 Brute-force
 Linear cryptanalysis
 Differential
cryptanalysis
 Symmetric-asymmetric
cryptography
 Hybrid encryption
 PGP, Pretty Good
Privacy
 OpenPGP
 Encrypted Logons
 SSH Secure Shell
 RLogon
 Kerberos
 MIT
 Timestamps
 Session key
 Secret key
 One-way Hash
Snake Oil for Sale
 Snake Oil is a term
used to describe
commercial
cryptographic methods
and products which
are considered bogus
or fraudulent.
 What to look for
 Secret systems
 Techno-Babble
 Larger bit claims
 Cracking contests
 Claims of setting new
standards