Categories: Linux administration, Networking
A course for everyone who wants to understand and use modern cryptography tools for data protection. Participants learn how to: create, modify, import and export keys, encrypt, decrypt and sign emails and files, send their public key to a keyserver, revoke their public key, participate in a keysigning party.
Duration
1 day
Agenda
- Encoding and encryption
- Symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
- Hash functions
- Digital signature principles
- Encryption and digital signature scope of use
- Introduction to OpenSSL and GnuPG
- X.509 and PKCS #11 standards
- Creating keys: key length, algorithm choice, key management: exporting, importing, revoking
- Digitally signing and encrypting documents using keys
- Keyservers: key validation, sending key to a keyserver
- Supporting applications
- GNU Privacy Assistant
- Seahorse
- GPG in email clients
- signing and encrypting email
- Outlook Express (GPGOE)
- Mozilla (EnigMail)
Audience and prerequisites
Participants are expected to have basic computer skills (Windows or Linux) and know how to use an email client (Outlook or Thunderbird).
Certificates
Course participants receive completion certificates signed by ALX.
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