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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

The Cryptography I certification course is useful to the aspirants who are looking for the growth statistics of their careers in this field. Cryptography has improved in the digital world with more benefits than earlier. The main objective of Coursera is to give aspirants vast knowledge about cryptography that is very beneficial in the digital platform to increase the work experience of people for data security.

The Cryptography I certification by Coursera and Stanford is crucial in a world with better enhancements taking place in the digital economy. All businesses, and governments, are looking for a way of safeguarding the data and securing the data from any type of hacking. Providing authentication to the user only that eradicates intruders from accessing data is possible with Cryptography and its applications. Therefore, every organization requires cryptographers to encode and decode the data properly so that third parties cannot access the information. In this path, this programme comes to educate how the mechanism is done. Thus the Cryptography I online course is ideal for Cyber Security professionals, Computer Programmers, Data managers, etc. 

Coursera is an online learning platform where it offers many courses for free access to the course materials. The online lectures are provided by professionals from foreign top universities. Therefore, aspirants can use this course and get certified with successful completion of the course.

The Highlights

  • Approx. 23  hours course and shareable certificate
  • Self-paced learning with assessments and quizzes
  • Mobile access for flexible learning
  • Free access to course materials throughout the course duration
  • Offered by Stanford
  • Certification from Coursera

Programme Offerings

  • online videos lectures
  • quizzes
  • Study Materials
  • Mobile access
  • assignments
  • practice assessments.

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 4954yesCoursera

The Cryptography I certification fees is as follows:

Course

Fees in INR

Cryptography I certification course

Rs. 4,954

Note: The candidates can audit the course for free.


Eligibility Criteria

Education

The candidate should be from any recognized institute or university. Other than this no other details are mentioned in this link

Certification qualifying details

The candidate should complete the course and submit all the assignments within the given time to avail of the certificate. Also, the certificate is given only to fees paid candidates

What you will learn

Knowledge of Cyber Security

After completing the Cryptography I certification syllabus, the candidates will be able to:

  • They will learn about the authentication for accessing data by trusted people and only for certain people for secure transactions
  • They will be able to understand the decryption and encryption of code with any coding language by using a particular key mechanism
  • Learn about Data security to secure data wisely without any data loss
  • Learn the fundamentals of Encryption and cryptography

Who it is for

The Cryptography I certification by Coursera and Stanford is ideal for:

  • Statistician
  • Computer Programmer
  • Software Developer
  • Software Engineer
  • IT Engineer
  • Computer Systems Engineer
  • Computer Systems Administrator
  • Computer System Analyst

Admission Details

Candidates should follow the below steps to take part in Cryptography I programme

Step 1: The candidate should visit the website and click the enroll now button using the following link.

Step 2: Thereafter, the candidate is asked to choose the course with or without a certificate or financial aid and after choosing the mode candidate should click continue

Step 3: Then, he/she needs to sign up and fill in the relevant details. Thereafter the profile will go for selection. 

Step 4: Candidates will receive an email confirmation and then continue their course

Application Details

The candidates need to fill in the details for the Cryptography I certification by Coursera and Stanford. Or they can sign in using their Google account. Then they audit the course for free. 

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Course Overview
  • What is Cryptography?
  • History of Cryptography
  • Discrete Probability (Crash Course)
  • Discrete Probability (Crash Course, Cont.)
  • Information Theoretic Security and The One Time Pad
  • Stream Ciphers and Pseudo Random Generators
  • Attacks on Stream Ciphers and The One Time Pad
  • Real-World Stream Ciphers
  • PRG Security Definitions
  • Semantic Security
  • Stream Ciphers are Semantically Secure [optional]
Readings
  • Lecture slides for all six weeks
  • Course overview and additional reading resources
Quiz
  • Week 1 - Problem Set
  • Week 1 - Programming Assignment [optional]

Videos
  • What are Block Ciphers?
  • The Data Encryption Standard
  • Exhaustive Search Attacks
  • More Attacks on Block Ciphers 
  • The AES Block Cipher
  • Block Ciphers From PRGs
  • Review: PRPs and PRFs
  • Modes of Operation: One Time Key
  • Security for Many-Time Key (CPA security)
  • Modes of Operation: Many Time Key (CBC)
  • Modes of Operation: Many Time Key (CTR)
Quiz
  • Week 2 - Problem Set
  • Week 2 - Programming Assignment [Optional]30m

Videos
  • Message Authentication Codes
  • MACs Based On PRFs
  • CBC-MAC and NMAC
  • MAC Padding
  • PMAC and the Carter-Wegman MAC
  • Introduction
  • Generic Birthday Attack
  • The Merkle-Damgard Paradigm
  • Constructing Compression Functions
  • HMAC
  • Timing attacks on MAC verification
Quiz
  • Week 3 - Problem Set
  • Week 3 - Programming Assignment [Optional]30m

Videos
  • Active Attacks on CPA-Secure Encryption
  • Definitions 
  • Chosen Ciphertext Attacks
  • Constructions From Ciphers and MACs
  • Case Study: TLS 
  • CBC Padding Attacks
  • Attacking Non-Atomic Decryption
  • Key Derivation
  • Deterministic Encryption
  • Deterministic Encryption: SIV and Wide PRP
  • Tweakable Encryption
  • Format Preserving Encryption
Quiz
  • Week 4 - Problem Set
  • Week 4 - Programming Project [Optional]

Videos
  • Trusted 3rd Parties 
  • Merkle Puzzles
  • The Diffie-Hellman Protocol
  • Public-Key Encryption
  • Notation
  • Fermat and Euler
  • Modular e'th Roots
  • Arithmetic algorithms
  • Intractable Problems
Reading
  • More background on number theory

Quiz
  • Week 5 - Problem Set
  • Week 5 - Programming Assignment [Optional]

Videos
  • Definitions and Security 
  • Constructions
  • The RSA Trapdoor Permutation
  • PKCS
  • Is RSA a One-Way Function?
  • RSA in Practice
  • The ElGamal Public-key System
  • ElGamal Security
  • ElGamal Variants With Better Security
  • A Unifying Theme
  • Farewell (For Now)
Quiz
  • Week 6 - Problem Set
  • Week 6 - Programming Assignment [Optional]

Quiz
  • Final exam

Instructors

Stanford Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: How can I access the videos if I missed the class?

The website has a recording facility and downloadable video option as well on a desktop or in the mobile application. But the course videos are accessed during the course duration time only.

2: How can I benefit from the certification?

The candidate after the completion of the Cryptography I training course will be awarded the course completion certificate and the certificate is sharable in resumes. Also, with a Coursera certificate, there will be increased chances of getting hired in top MNCs

3: Can I communicate with the instructor to clarify any doubts regarding the Cryptography I online course?

No, since the instructor is handling many people it is not possible for individual communication with the student. But the student can ask a question in the comments section so that the instructor can reply any time during the online class.

4: What if I am not eligible for financial aid for the Cryptography I online course?

If the candidate is not eligible for financial aid, he /she can audit the course or get paid for certification or can access the content and assignments by self-learning by applying again.

5: Can I extend the duration of the Cryptography I training course if I can not submit the assignments on time?

No, candidates cannot extend the course duration. Candidates should complete the course in the given time otherwise candidates should apply again.

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