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Learn Cryptography in Go

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Learn cryptography in Go by building ciphers, hashes, password security, and encryption tools. Understand security beneath the library call.

Syllabus

Symmetric Encryption

Learn the basics of cryptography: encrypting and decrypting a secret message with a key

Encoding

To be able to work with encrypted data, you need to understand how information is encoded in different formats

Brute Force

Learn about the most primitive, but most important kind of crypto attack

Caesar Cipher

Learn about the fundamentals of ciphers, starting with Julius Caesar's famous cipher

XOR

Study the importance of the XOR operation in cryptography and how it can be used to create the perfect cipher

Stream Ciphers

Stream ciphers can be used to encrypt data as it flows through a system

Block Ciphers

Block ciphers are commonly used to encrypt large amounts of data at rest, like entire hard drives

DES

DES is an older block cipher that's important to understand to appreciate modern block ciphers

AES

AES is a secure, modern block cipher that's used in many production applications

Asymmetric Encryption

Asymmetric encryption is used in HTTPS, digital signatures, and really anywhere two parties need to securely communicate

RSA

RSA is one of the most popular asymmetric encryption algorithms

Hash Functions

Hashing has many applications in cryptography, including password security and message integrity

Digital Signatures

Digital signatures are a way to prove that a message was sent by a particular party

KDFs

Key derivation functions are how we derive keys from passwords or from other keys securely

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