Students will learn the following topics: asymmetric vs symmetric encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Hashing protocols, MD5, SHA1, HMAC, Stream ciphers vs. Block Ciphers, Digital signatures, digital certificates, non-repudiation, RSA encryption, Diffie Hellman, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Key stretching, Password-Based Key Derivation Functions, password salting, ROT13 cipher, confusion and diffusion, Blowfish, Twofish, RC4, PGP/GPG email encryption and many more.