You're reading from Becoming a Salesforce Certified Technical Architect

Product type Book

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568754

Pages 628 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Software Architecture

Author (1):

Tameem Bahri

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Your Journey to Becoming a CTA

2. Chapter 1: Starting Your Journey as a CTA

3. Chapter 2: Core Architectural Concepts – Data

4. Chapter 3: Core Architectural Concepts – Integration and Cryptography

5. Chapter 4: Core Architectural Concepts – Identity and Access Management

6. Section 2: Knowledge Domains Deep Dive

7. Chapter 5: Developing a Scalable System Architecture

8. Chapter 6: Formulating a Secure Architecture in Salesforce

9. Chapter 7: Designing a Scalable Salesforce Data Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Creating a Lean Solution Architecture

11. Chapter 9: Forging an Integrated Solution

12. Chapter 10: Development Life Cycle and Deployment Planning

13. Chapter 11: Communicating and Socializing Your Solution

14. Section 3: Putting It All Together

15. Chapter 12: Practice the Review Board – First Mock

16. Chapter 13: Present and Defend – First Mock

17. Chapter 14: Practice the Review Board – Second Mock

18. Chapter 15: Present and Defend – Second Mock

19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Tips and Tricks, and the Way Forward

Cryptographic algorithm types and use cases

The two types of cryptography algorithms that we will dive into are symmetric cryptography algorithms and asymmetric encryption algorithms. We will also dig into the details of hashing algorithms, digital signatures, and message authentication codes (MACs).

Symmetric cryptography algorithms

This is the family of algorithms that relies on a symmetric key for both encrypting the plaintext and decrypting ciphertext. As we discussed earlier, storing the key in a secure and safe way is absolutely crucial for this type of algorithm. The need for sharing the key between both parties (sender and recipient) is one of the main drawbacks of these types of algorithms as the attacker could intercept the used channel and get access to the key. There have been several workarounds during history (remember, some of these algorithms have been around for many years). More streamlined approaches have been adopted in the digital world, and we will find...