Learning about Encryption
veritas_libertas
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Hello everyone,
Does anyone have a suggestion on studying encryption types, hashes, etc.? This area of the certification is giving me headache. If you have taken this before is there a way of remembering them that worked for you?
Does anyone have a suggestion on studying encryption types, hashes, etc.? This area of the certification is giving me headache. If you have taken this before is there a way of remembering them that worked for you?
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Psoasman
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what books are you reading. the sybex book is pretty good for breaking it down. I will type the info into charts and just look them over.
Hands-on is the other great way to learn. set up a server and play with the different protocols. -
sidsanders
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get gnupg and if you are using windows, gpgshell: Some Apps (GPGshell, TitleTime)
this will show you some trust models, encryption/hash examples, pki.GO TEAM VENTURE!!!! -
kimanyd
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Sadly, most of this is just rote memorization. Do some research and create tables for all the different types (block ciphers, stream ciphers, hashing algorithms, etc.)
Wikipedia has a good table for stream ciphers: Stream cipher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (they don't for block ciphers though).
