Crypto 101
by Laurens Van Houtven
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Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language.
Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator. 
Book Description
Crypto 101 is an introductory course on cryptography, freely available for programmers of all ages and skill levels.Learn how to exploit common cryptographic flaws, armed with nothing but a little time and your favorite programming language.
Forge administrator cookies, recover passwords, and even backdoor your own random number generator.
This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC). You can download Crypto 101 ebook for free in PDF format (16.1 MB).
Table of Contents
Building blocks
Exclusive or ...
Block ciphers
Stream ciphers
Key exchange
Public-key encryption
Hash functions
Message authentication codes
Signature algorithms
Key derivation functions
Random number generators
Complete cryptosystems
SSL and TLS
OpenPGP and GPG
Off-The-Record Messaging (OTR)
Appendices
Modular arithmetic
Elliptic curves
Side-channel attacks
Book Details
Title
Crypto 101
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
Self-publishing
Published
2017
Pages
254
Edition
1
Language
English
PDF Size
16.1 MB
License
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