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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

You're reading from  Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624480
Pages 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing 2. Advanced Linux Exploitation 3. Corporate Network and Database Exploitation 4. Active Directory Exploitation 5. Docker Exploitation 6. Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers 7. Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation 8. VLAN Exploitation 9. VoIP Exploitation 10. Insecure VPN Exploitation 11. Routing and Router Vulnerabilities 12. Internet of Things Exploitation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Cryptography

In the art of cryptology, we have two different sciences: cryptography and cryptanalysis. Cryptography secures information based on mathematical algorithms, while cryptanalysis deals with exposing ciphertexts created by cryptography systems. These two sciences coexist side by side. More simply, cryptography deals with hiding information, and cryptanalysis breaks cryptosystems to reveal the hidden information. Cryptography is not a new science, it is old. There are some classical cryptography techniques, such as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphics, scytale, Vigenère cipher, the Caesar cipher, and the ROT13 cipher.

Cryptosystems

The implementation of cryptographic techniques is called a cryptosystem...

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