CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP) CAS-003 Cert Guide, Second Edition

Chapter 15. Cryptographic Techniques

This chapter covers the following topics:

• Techniques: This section covers key stretching, hashing, digital signatures, message authentication, code signing, pseudo-random number generation, perfect forward secrecy, data-in-transit encryption, data-in-memory/processing, data-at-rest encryption, and steganography.

• Implementations: This section describes crypto modules, crypto processors, cryptographic service providers, DRM, watermarking, GPG, SSL/TLS, SSH, S/MIME, cryptographic applications and proper/improper implementations, stream versus block, PKI, cryptocurrency/blockchain, mobile device encryption considerations, and elliptic curve cryptography.

This chapter covers CAS-003 objective 4.4.

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