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Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals

You're reading from   Modern Cryptography for Cybersecurity Professionals Learn how you can leverage encryption to better secure your organization's data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838644352
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Securing Our Data
2. Chapter 1: Protecting Data in Motion or at Rest FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Evolution of Ciphers 4. Chapter 3: Evaluating Network Attacks 5. Section 2: Understanding Cryptographic Techniques
6. Chapter 4: Introducing Symmetric Encryption 7. Chapter 5: Dissecting Asymmetric Encryption 8. Chapter 6: Examining Hash Algorithms 9. Section 3: Applying Cryptography in Today's World
10. Chapter 7: Adhering to Standards 11. Chapter 8: Using a Public Key Infrastructure 12. Chapter 9: Exploring IPsec and TLS 13. Chapter 10: Protecting Cryptographic Techniques 14. Assessments 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding cryptographic requirements

When using asymmetric encryption, we need an algorithm that can generate a mathematically related key pair. In this section, we'll take a look at some of the cryptographic requirements of using an asymmetric algorithm, and we'll see an example of generating a key pair. We'll then discuss the importance of managing the public and private key, and finish with ways we can use asymmetric encryption.

Let's start with some requirements when generating a key pair.

Designing a strong algorithm

When something is strong it is resistant to being broken, such as an impenetrable fortress. An encryption algorithm is no exception, in that we want one that is able to withstand a brute-force attack and continue to provide data confidentiality and integrity. Some of the considerations when designing a strong asymmetric algorithm include the following:

  • It must be effortless to generate a mathematically related public and private...
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