Penetration Testing Fundamentals: A Hands-On Guide to Reliable Security Audits

Chapter 3

Cryptography

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

Understand the basics of cryptography

Understand how cryptography affects your penetration testing

Use standard methods to attempt to circumvent cryptography

You may be asking yourself, why a chapter on cryptography in a book about penetration testing? Cryptography is used to secure data, to store password hashes, ...