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Modern Symmetric

AES and friends.

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  • 01·160 XP
    AES Basics
    Block cipher, 128-bit blocks, and why ECB leaks.
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  • 02·180 XP
    Block Cipher Modes
    ECB vs CBC vs CTR vs GCM — and why IVs matter.
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  • 03·170 XP
    Padding
    PKCS#7, why a whole extra block, and the padding oracle.
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  • 04·190 XP
    Authenticated Encryption
    AEAD, tags, AAD, and picking GCM vs ChaCha20-Poly1305.
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  • 05·200 XP
    Key Derivation
    PBKDF2 → scrypt → Argon2: making passwords expensive.
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