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Asymmetric Key Cryptography

Discover asymmetric encryption and how it can be used to communicate without a shared key.

  • Duration

    2 weeks

  • Weekly study

    10 hours
Overview
Requirements

Explore the principles of asymmetric key cryptography

Cryptography provides more than just secure communication. It also gives us ways to identify a sender or receiver, prove authorship or verify a source of information.

In this course we will see how asymmetric encryption is fundamental to modern communications and learn about the algorithms that make it possible.

What topics will you cover?

  • Asymmetric key cryptography
  • Key exchange
  • Public key infrastructure
  • RSA
  • Certificates

Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Describe the theory and practice of asymmetric cryptography
  • Demonstrate the use of public key infrastructure
  • Apply symmetric cryptography to the problems of signing, certification and authentication
  • Discuss certificate authorities, trusted platform modules and concepts such as chain of trust

Who is the course for?

This course is for people who want to understand more about the way cryptography keeps our communications safe, either out of curiosity or to prepare for advanced study of the topic.

Who developed the course?

Coventry University

Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.

  • Established

    1992

  • Location

    Coventry

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