1. Course Overview

The EC-Council Certified Encryption Specialist (ECES) program introduces professionals and students to the field of cryptography. The participants will learn the foundations of modern symmetric and key cryptography including the details of algorithms such as Feistel Networks, DES, and AES. Other topics introduced:

Overview of other algorithms such as Blowfish, Twofish, and Skipjack

Hashing algorithms including MD5, MD6, SHA, Gost, RIPMD 256 and others.

Asymmetric cryptography including thorough descriptions of RSA, Elgamal, Elliptic Curve, and DSA.

Significant concepts such as diffusion, confusion, and Kerkchoff’s principle.

 

Participants will also be provided a practical application of the following:

How to set up a VPN

Encrypt a drive

Hands-on experience with steganography

Hands on experience in cryptographic algorithms ranging from classic ciphers like Caesar cipher to modern day algorithms such as AES and RSA.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

 

2. Course Duration

3 Days (24 Hours)

3. Target Audience

Anyone involved in the selection and implementation of VPN’s or digital certificates should attend this course. Without understanding the cryptography at some depth, people are limited to following marketing hype. Understanding the actual cryptography allows you to know which one to select. A person successfully completing this course will be able to select the encryption standard that is most beneficial to their organization and understand how to effectively deploy that technology.

This course is excellent for ethical hackers and penetration testing professionals as most penetration testing courses skip cryptanalysis completely. Many penetration testing professionals testing usually don’t attempt to crack cryptography. A basic knowledge of cryptanalysis is very beneficial to any penetration testing.

 

4. Learning Objectives

What is Cryptography?

History

Mono-Alphabet Substitution

Caesar Cipher

Atbash Cipher

ROT 13

Scytale

Single Substitution Weaknesses

Multi-Alphabet Substitution

Cipher Disk

Vigenère Cipher

Vigenère Cipher: Example

Breaking the Vigenère Cipher

Playfair

The ADFGVX cipher

The Enigma Machine

CrypTool

 

5. Course Content

Module 1: Introduction and History of Cryptography

Lesson 1: What is Cryptography?

Lesson 2: History

Lesson 3: Mono-Alphabet Substitution

Lesson 4: Caesar Cipher

Lesson 5: Atbash Cipher

Lesson 6: ROT 13

Lesson 7: Scytale

Lesson 8: Single Substitution Weaknesses

Lesson 9: Multi-Alphabet Substitution

Lesson 10: Cipher Disk

Lesson 11: Vigenère Cipher

Lesson 12: Vigenère Cipher: Example

Lesson 13: Breaking the Vigenère Cipher

Lesson 14: Playfair

Lesson 15: The ADFGVX cipher

Lesson 16: The Enigma Machine

Lesson 17: CrypTool

Module 2: Symmetric Cryptography & Hashes

Lesson 1: Symmetric Cryptography

Lesson 2: Information Theory

Lesson 3: Information Theory Cryptography Concepts

Lesson 4: Kerckhoffs's Principle

Lesson 5: Substitution

Lesson 6: Transposition

Lesson 7: Substitution and Transposition

Lesson 8: Binary Math

Lesson 9: Binary AND

Lesson 10: Binary OR

Lesson 11: Binary XOR

Lesson 12: Block Cipher vs. Stream Cipher

Lesson 13: Symmetric Block Cipher Algorithms

Lesson 14: Basic Facts of the Feistel Function

Lesson 15: The Feistel Function

Lesson 16: A Simple View of a Single Round

Lesson 17: Unbalanced Feistel Cipher

Lesson 18: DES

Lesson 19: 3DES

Lesson 20: DESx

Lesson 21: Whitening

Lesson 22: AES

Lesson 23: AES General Overview

Lesson 24: AES Specifics

Lesson 25: Serpent

Lesson 26: Twofish

Lesson 27: Skipjack

Lesson 28: IDEA

Lesson 29: Symmetric Algorithm Methods

Lesson 30: Electronic Codebook (ECB)

Lesson 31: Cipher-Block Chaining (CBC)

Lesson 32: Propagating Cipher-Block Chaining (PCBC)

Lesson 33: Cipher Feedback (CFB)

Lesson 34: Output Feedback (OFB)

Lesson 35: Counter (CTR)

Lesson 36: Initialisation Vector (IV)

Lesson 37: Symmetric Stream Ciphers

Lesson 38: Example of Symmetric Stream Ciphers: RC4

Lesson 39: Example of Symmetric Stream Ciphers: FISH

Lesson 40: Example of Symmetric Stream Ciphers: PIKE

Lesson 41: Hash

Lesson 42: Hash – Salt

Lesson 43: MD5

Lesson 44: The MD5 Algorithm

Lesson 45: MD6

Lesson 46: Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA)

Lesson 47: Fork 256

Lesson 48: RIPEMD – 160

Lesson 49: GOST

Lesson 50: Tiger

Lesson 51: CryptoBench

Module 3: Number Theory and Asymmetric Cryptography

Lesson 1: Asymmetric Encryption

Lesson 2: Basic Number Facts

Lesson 3: Prime Numbers

Lesson 4: Co-Prime

Lesson 5: Eulers Totient

Lesson 6: Modulus Operator

Lesson 7: Fibonacci Numbers

Lesson 8: Birthday Problem

Lesson 9: Birthday Theorem

Lesson 10: Birthday Attack

Lesson 11: Random Number Generators

Lesson 12: Classification of Random Number Generators

Lesson 13: Naor-Reingold and Mersenne Twister Pseudorandom Function

Lesson 14: Linear Congruential Generator

Lesson 15: Lehmer Random Number Generator

Lesson 16: Lagged Fibonacci Generator

Lesson 17: Diffie-Hellman

Lesson 18: Rivest Shamir Adleman (RSA)

Lesson 19: RSA – How it Works

Lesson 20: RSA Example

Lesson 21: Menezes–Qu–Vanstone

Lesson 22: Digital Signature Algorithm

Lesson 23: Signing with DSA

Lesson 24: Elliptic Curve

Lesson 25: Elliptic Curve Variations

Lesson 26: Elgamal

Lesson 27: CrypTool

Module 4: Applications of Cryptography

Lesson 1: Digital Signatures

Lesson 2: What is a Digital Certificate?

Lesson 3: Digital Certificates

Lesson 4: X.509

Lesson 5: X.509 Certificates

Lesson 6: X.509 Certificate Content

Lesson 7: X.509 Certificate File Extensions

Lesson 8: Certificate Authority (CA)

Lesson 9: Registration Authority (RA)

Lesson 10: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Lesson 11: Digital Certificate Terminology

Lesson 12: Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol

Lesson 13: Digital Certificate Management

Lesson 14: Trust Models

Lesson 15: Certificates and Web Servers

Lesson 16: Microsoft Certificate Services

Lesson 17: Windows Certificates: certmgr.msc

Lesson 18: Authentication

Lesson 19: Password Authentication Protocol (PAP)

Lesson 20: Shiva Password Authentication Protocol (S-PAP)

Lesson 21: Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)

Lesson 22: Kerberos

Lesson 23: Components of Kerberos System

Lesson 24: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

Lesson 25: PGP Certificates

Lesson 26: Wifi Encryption

Lesson 27: Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)

Lesson 28: WPA - Wi-Fi Protected Access

Lesson 29: WPA2

Lesson 30: SSL

Lesson 31: TLS

Lesson 32: Virtual Private Network (VPN)

Lesson 33: Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)

Lesson 34: PPTP VPN

Lesson 35: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol VPN

Lesson 36: Internet Protocol Security VPN

Lesson 37: SSL/VPN

Lesson 38: Encrypting Files

Lesson 39: Backing up the EFS key

Lesson 40: Restoring the EFS Key

Lesson 41: Bitlocker

Lesson 42: Bitlocker: Screenshot

Lesson 43: Disk Encryption Software: Truecrypt

Lesson 44: Steganography

Lesson 45: Steganography Terms

Lesson 46: Historical Steganography

Lesson 47: Steganography Details

Lesson 48: Other Forms of Steganography

Lesson 49: Steganography Implementations

Lesson 50: Demonstration

Lesson 51: Steganalysis

Lesson 52: Steganalysis – Raw Quick Pair

Lesson 53: Steganalysis - Chi-Square Analysis

Lesson 54: Steganalysis - Audio Steganalysis

Lesson 55: Steganography Detection Tools

Lesson 56: National Security Agency and Cryptography

Lesson 57: NSA Suite A Encryption Algorithms

Lesson 58: NSA Suite B Encryption Algorithms

Lesson 59: National Security Agency: Type 1 Algorithms

Lesson 60: National Security Agency: Type 2 Algorithms

Lesson 61: National Security Agency: Type 3 Algorithms

Lesson 62: National Security Agency: Type 4 Algorithms

Lesson 63: Unbreakable Encryption

Module 5: Applications of Cryptography

Lesson 1: Breaking Ciphers

Lesson 2: Cryptanalysis

Lesson 3: Frequency Analysis

Lesson 4: Kasiski

Lesson 5: Cracking Modern Cryptography

Lesson 6: Cracking Modern Cryptography: Chosen Plaintext Attack

Lesson 7: Linear Cryptanalysis

Lesson 8: Differential Cryptanalysis

Lesson 9: Integral Cryptanalysis

Lesson 10: Cryptanalysis Resources

Lesson 11: Cryptanalysis Success

Lesson 12: Rainbow Tables

Lesson 13: Password Cracking

Lesson 14: Tools

 

6. Prerequisites

Attendees should meet the following prerequisites:

    Participants who wish to take part in the ECES certification training should have a minimum of 1-year experience in the information security domain along with basic knowledge of cryptanalysis.

    If a participant is looking to clear their ECES certification exam, they should attend an instructor-led ECES training from an EC-Council Accredited Training Center

7. Course Agenda

8. Technical Requirement

1. Laptop with minimum 8GB Ram

2. Connected Monitor for iLabs.

3. Hi speed Internet Connection as All the labs it will be accessed through EC-Council Cloud

 

9. Exam Voucher Validity

It will be valid for 12month starting from the last day of the course.

 

10.  Certification Expiry

It will be valid for 3 years.