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CYB 311 Cryptography

300 levelComputing & ICT10 topics

CYB 311 covers 10 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Classical ciphers and cryptanalysis
  2. Symmetric-key cryptography
  3. Block ciphers, DES and AES
  4. Modes of operation
  5. Stream ciphers
  6. Public-key cryptography and RSA
  7. Diffie-Hellman key exchange
  8. Cryptographic hash functions
  9. Digital signatures and message authentication
  10. Public key infrastructure and certificates

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Classical ciphers and cryptanalysis

Classical ciphers are early methods of hiding messages by substituting letters, shifting alphabets, or rearranging positions of characters. For exams, you must master how each cipher works, how to encrypt and decrypt simple examples, and how cryptanalysis breaks them using patterns such as frequency, repetition, and known structure.

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