Security for virtualized datacentres <\/p>\n
Security pro Laurens Van Houtven has created a free introduction cryptography course to help programmers lift their infosec game. <\/p>\n
The Crypto 101 book contained everything needed to understand complete systems including block and stream ciphers; hash functions; message authentication codes; public key encryption; key agreement protocols, and signature algorithms. <\/p>\n
Van Houtven (@lvh) said the course developed simple to more advanced primitives demonstrating the importance of each, and culminated in complete cryptosystems like Transport Layer Security (TLS), GPG, and Off The Record (OTR). <\/p>\n
\"Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favourite programming language,\" Van Houtven wrote of the course. <\/p>\n
\"Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.\" <\/p>\n
\"... . The goal of this book is not to make anyone a cryptographer or a security researcher. The goal of this book is to understand how complete cryptosystems work from a birds eye view, and how to apply them in real software.\" <\/p>\n
Laurens Van Houtven <\/p>\n
Crypto 101 contains exercises in which technology bods could test their crypto chops <\/p>\n
Van Houtven said cryptography could no longer be deemed a game for experts given the recent large breaches resulting from borked or non-existent encryption. <\/p>\n
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