Domain 5 - Cryptography

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Goals

• Evaluate the fundamental concepts of cryptography to protect data security
• Outline the requirements for cryptographic systems and operations
• Evaluate data protection secure protocols to protect data security
• Evaluate cryptographic systems used to protect data security to protect data security

Info

This section is based on portions of SSCP Common Book of Knowledge for the Cryptography domain.

Cryptography

• Cryptography
• Cryptographic Key
• Cryptographic Protocol
• Cryptographic Module
• Cryptographic System
• Pseudorandom and Determinism
• Salting

Encryption

• Symmetric Encryption
  • Block Cipher
    • Data Encryption Standard (DES)
    • Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
    • Blowfish and Twofish
    • International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)
    • CAST Algorithms
    • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  • Stream Cipher
    • Rivest Cipher 4 (RC4)
    • Salsa20 & ChaCha20
• Asymmetric Encryption
  • Diffie-Hellman
  • RSA
  • ElGamal
  • Quantum Cryptography
  • Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
  • Digital Signature
  • Hashed Message Authentication Codes (HMAC)
  • Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA)
  • Digital Certificate
• Encryption

Secure Cryptoprocessors, Hardware Security Modules, and Trusted Platform Modules

• Cryptoprocessors
• Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
• Hardware Security Module (HSM)

Understand and Support Secure Protocols

• Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
• Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
• HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
• Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S-MIME)
• DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
• Blockchain