Level 2 · M.Sc

Cryptography

Syllabus · 42 phases · ~1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

Phase 0 Foundations & Tooling
Phase 1 Security Goals & Threat Models
Phase 2 The Toy Lab & the Running "Secure Message" Protocol
Phase 3 Modular Arithmetic & the Integers mod n
Phase 4 Groups, Rings, Fields & GF(2^n)
Phase 5 Number Theory
Phase 6 CRT & Fast Exponentiation
Phase 7 Probability, Entropy & the Birthday Bound
Phase 8 Classical Ciphers & Cryptanalysis
Phase 9 Perfect Secrecy: the One-Time Pad
Phase 10 Stream Ciphers, LFSRs & Keystream Reuse
Phase 11 Block Ciphers: SPN & Feistel
Phase 12 AES from Scratch
Phase 13 Modes of Operation
Phase 14 Padding & the Padding-Oracle Attack
Phase 15 Cryptographic Hashing
Phase 16 MACs, HMAC & Authenticated Encryption
Phase 17 Entropy Sources, CSPRNGs & Seeding
Phase 18 Public-Key Intuition & Trapdoor Functions
Phase 19 RSA from Scratch
Phase 20 Diffie–Hellman & Discrete Log
Phase 21 Elliptic-Curve Groups
Phase 22 ECDH & ECDSA
Phase 23 Key Exchange, Forward Secrecy & Hybrid Encryption
Phase 24 Post-Quantum Preview
Phase 25 Digital Signatures & Non-Repudiation
Phase 26 Certificates, X.509 & the PKI Trust Model
Phase 27 TLS 1.3 as a Protocol
Phase 28 Password Hashing & KDFs
Phase 29 Key Management, Rotation & HSMs
Phase 30 Commitment Schemes & Zero-Knowledge Intuition
Phase 31 Side Channels & Constant-Time Code
Phase 32 Implementation Pitfalls
Phase 33 Secret Sharing & Threshold Cryptography
Phase 34 End-to-End Messaging & the Double Ratchet
Phase 35 Cryptographic Protocol Analysis
Phase 36 Crypto Agility, Deprecation & Migration
Phase 37 Cryptanalysis Techniques
Phase 38 Building a Small Crypto Library
Phase 39 Capstone: an Authenticated, Forward-Secret Messaging Protocol
Phase 40 Hardening, Cryptanalysis Postmortem & "What's Next"
Phase 41 Portal Integration