Encryption for Beginners with OpenSSL

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Course Requirements & Target Audience

Lecture 3: Repetition

Chapter 2: Lab Setup

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: VirtualBox & OS Installation

Lecture 3: OpenSSL Installation on Linux

Lecture 4: OpenSSL Installation on Windows

Lecture 5: openssl – Basic Introduction

Lecture 6: Lab #1 – Lab Environment Setup

Chapter 3: Encryption – Absolute Basics

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: What is Encryption?

Lecture 3: Terminology

Lecture 4: Types of Encryption

Lecture 5: Symmetric Encryption

Lecture 6: Asymmetric Encryption – Part 1

Lecture 7: Asymmetric Encryption – Part 2

Chapter 4: Symmetric Encryption

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Terminology

Lecture 3: Key Length & Keyspace

Lecture 4: Classification of Symmetric Algorithms

Lecture 5: Encrypting Data with Symmetric Key using openssl

Chapter 5: Asymmetric Encryption

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Terminology

Lecture 3: Asymmetric Keys – Revisit

Lecture 4: Demo: Generating Public and Private Keys using openssl – Part 1

Lecture 5: Demo: Generating Public and Private Keys using openssl – Part 2

Lecture 6: Demo: Send a encrypted document to your friend – Part 1

Lecture 7: Demo: Send a encrypted document to your friend – Part 2

Chapter 6: Data Integrity

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: What is Data Integrity? And Types

Lecture 3: Hash Fundamentals

Lecture 4: Hash Demo – Sample Text & Apache httpd Download

Chapter 7: Digital Signatures

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Terminology

Lecture 3: Symmetric & Asymmetric – Quick Review

Lecture 4: Digital Signatures

Lecture 5: Signing a document using openssl rsautl

Lecture 6: Signing a document using openssl dgst

Chapter 8: SSL Certificates

Lecture 1: Process of Requesting a SSL certificate

Lecture 2: SSL Certificates

Lecture 3: SSL Certificate Types

Chapter 9: Lab Setup in AWS – Bonus

Lecture 1: AWS Free Tier Sign Up Process

Lecture 2: Create Linux Machine in AWS and Connecting via SSH

Chapter 10: Appendix & Miscellaneous

Lecture 1: VirtualBox Installation

Lecture 2: VirtualBox Introduction

Lecture 3: Creating VMs

Lecture 4: Ubuntu Installation

Lecture 5: Windows 10 Installation

Lecture 6: Putty Setup on Windows

Chapter 11: Conclusion & Bonus

Lecture 1: Bonus – Other Courses @ Heavy Discount