Cryptographic Hash and Integrity Protection

Description

In this course, you will :

• This course reviews cryptographic hash functions in general and their use in the forms of hash chain and hash tree (Merkle tree).
• Building on hash functions, the course describes message authentication focusing on message authentication code (MAC) based on symmetric keys.
• We then discuss digital signatures based on asymmetric cryptography, providing security properties such as non-repudiation which were unavailable in symmetric-cryptography-based message authentication. This course is a part of the Applied Cryptography specialization.