Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Cryptography: More Than Secrecy.- Chapter 2: Hashing.- Chapter 3: Symmetric Encryption: Two Sides, One Key.- Chapter 4: Asymmetric Encryption: Public/Private Keys.- Chapter 5: Message Integrity, Signatures, and Certificates.- Chapter 6: Combining Asymmetric and Symmetric Algorithms.- Chapter 7: More Symmetric Crypto: Authenticated Encryption and Kerberos.- Chapter 8: TLS Communications.- Bibliography.-

About the Author

Dr. Seth James Nielson is the founder and chief scientist of Crimson Vista, Inc., a boutique computer security research and consulting company. He is also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University where he teaches network security and has also served as the director of advanced research projects at the Information Security Institute. As part of his Hopkins work, he co-founded the cryptodoneright.org knowledge base, through a generous grant from Cisco. 

Christopher K. Monson has a PhD in machine learning, and has spent over a decade at Google in various engineering, machine learning, and leadership roles. He has broad experience writing and teaching programming courses in multiple languages, and has worked in document password recovery, malware detection, and large-scale secure computing. He is currently serving as the chief technology officer at Data Machines Corp. and teaches cloud computing security as a lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute.