TLS Cryptography In-Depth: Explore the intricacies of modern cryptography and the inner workings of TLS

by Dr. Paul Duplys, Dr. Roland Schmitz

Overview

TLS is the most widely used cryptographic protocol today, enabling e-commerce, online banking, and secure online communication. Written by Dr. Paul Duplys, Security, Privacy & Safety Research Lead at Bosch, and Dr. Roland Schmitz, Internet Security Professor at Stuttgart Media University, this book will help you gain a deep understanding of how and why TLS works, how past attacks on TLS were possible, and how vulnerabilities that enabled them were addressed in the latest TLS version 1.3. By exploring the inner workings of TLS, you’ll be able to configure it and use it more securely.
Starting with the basic concepts, you’ll be led step by step through the world of modern cryptography, guided by the TLS protocol. As you advance, you’ll be learning about the necessary mathematical concepts from scratch. Topics such as public-key cryptography based on elliptic curves will be explained with a view on real-world applications in TLS. With easy-to-understand concepts, you’ll find out how secret keys are generated and exchanged in TLS, and how they are used to creating a secure channel between a client and a server.
By the end of this book, you’ll have the knowledge to configure TLS servers securely. Moreover, you’ll have gained a deep knowledge of the cryptographic primitives that make up TLS.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781804615966
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	01/29/2024
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	712
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Paul Duplys is chief expert for cybersecurity at the department for technical strategies and enabling within the Mobility sector of Robert Bosch GmbH, a Tier-1 automotive supplier and manufacturer of industrial, residential, and consumer goods. Previous to this position, he spent over 12 years with Bosch Corporate Research, where he led the security and privacy research program and conducted applied research in various fields of information security. Paul's research interests include security automation, software security, security economics, software engineering, and AI. Paul holds a PhD degree in computer science from the University of Tuebingen, Germany.
Dr. Roland Schmitz has been a professor of internet security at the Stuttgart Media University (HdM) since 2001. Prior to joining HdM, from 1995 to 2001, he worked as a research engineer at Deutsche Telekom, with a focus on mobile security and digital signature standardization. At HdM, Roland teaches courses on internet security, system security, security engineering, digital rights management, theoretical computer science, discrete mathematics, and game physics. He has published numerous scientific papers in the fields of internet and multimedia security. Moreover, he has authored and co-authored several books. Roland holds a PhD degree in mathematics from Technical University Braunschweig, Germany.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. The Role of Cryptography in the Connected World
2. Secure Channel and the CIA Triad
3. A Secret to Share
4. Encryption and Decryption
5. Entity Authentication
6. Transport Layer Security at a Glance
7. Public-Key Cryptography
8. Elliptic Curves
9. Digital Signatures
10. Digital Certificates and Certification Authorities
11. Hash Functions and Message Authentication Codes
12. Secrets and Keys in TLS 1.3
13. TLS Handshake Protocol Revisited
14. Block Ciphers and Their Modes of Operation
15. Authenticated Encryption
16. The Galois Counter Mode
17. TLS Record Protocol Revisited
18. TLS Cipher Suites
19. Attacks on Cryptography
20. Attacks on the TLS Handshake Protocol
21. Attacks on the TLS Record Protocol
22. Attacks on TLS Implementations