COURSE SERIES

Security Foundations

From primitives to identity, protocols and post-quantum questions.

9 published lessons

Illustration for Cryptography and Security Foundations

Course outline

  1. 01
    Published

    SHA Comic Classroom Part 1: From Digital Fingerprints to Hardware Trust

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  2. 02
    Published

    AES Comic Classroom: Five Pictures for Modern Encryption

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  3. 03
    Published

    RSA Comic Classroom: From Prime Numbers and Fermat's Theorem to Public-Key Cryptography

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  4. 04
    Published

    ECC Comic Classroom: Curves, Finite Fields, and Point Keys

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  5. 05
    Published

    Credential Comic Classroom: Who Is at the Door?

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  6. 06
    Published

    Digital Signature Comic Classroom: Did You Really Send This?

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  7. 07
    Published

    Certificate & PKI Comic Classroom: Who Vouches for the Public Key?

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  8. 08
    Published

    TLS Comic Classroom: Are You Really the Service I Meant to Reach?

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

  9. 09
    Published

    Quantum Computing Comic Classroom: Why Shor Threatens RSA and ECC

    Connect the mechanism to its threat model, assumptions and limits.

Future topics (not published)
  • PQC migration, ML-KEM and ML-DSA