IT Security/Cryptography/Methods

This lesson covers cryptography methods.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for the cryptography methods portion of Security+ certification include:
 * Given a scenario, use appropriate cryptographic methods.
 * WEP vs. WPA/WPA2 and preshared key
 * MD5
 * SHA
 * RIPEMD
 * AES
 * DES
 * 3DES
 * HMAC
 * RSA
 * Diffie-Hellman
 * RC4
 * One-time pads
 * NTLM
 * NTLMv2
 * Blowfish
 * PGP/GPG
 * TwoFish
 * DHE
 * ECDHE
 * CHAP
 * PAP
 * Comparative strengths and performance of algorithms
 * Use of algorithms/protocols with transport encryption
 * SSL
 * TLS
 * IPSec
 * SSH
 * HTTPS
 * Cipher suites
 * Strong vs. weak ciphers
 * Key stretching
 * PBKDF2
 * Bcrypt

Multimedia

 * 1) YouTube: WEP vs. WPA - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 2) YouTube: Cryptographic Hash Functions - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 3) YouTube: Symmetric Encryption Ciphers - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 4) YouTube: Asymmetric Cryptography Algorithms - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 5) YouTube: One-Time Pads - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 6) YouTube: NTLM - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 7) YouTube: Transport Encryption Algorithms - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2
 * 8) YouTube: Strong vs. Weak Encryption - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 6.2