Emphasizes the significance of hashing, salting, and secure password storage in data security, highlighting the use of salt to prevent dictionary attacks and memory hard functions to slow down password cracking.
Explores the commitment scheme, key derivation function, and pseudorandom generator in cryptographic protocols, emphasizing their role in ensuring data integrity and authentication.
Explores message authentication codes and their formalism, with a focus on mobile telephony, covering topics like misuse attacks, security notions, and GSM architecture.
Introduces secret key cryptography, covering 'one-time pad' encryption, flaws in key sharing, and the Data Encryption Standard (DES) principles and operation.
