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Cryptographic Technologies

Chapter Description

In this sample chapter from 31 Days Before Your CCNA Security Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the IINS 210-260 Certification Exam, you will review learn how to describe key exchange and hash algorithm, compare and contrast symmetric and asymmetric encryption, and describe digital signatures, certificates, and PKI.

Key Topics

Today we will review cryptographic technologies and terminology. In particular, we will look at understanding the challenges of secure key management within a network environment. As well, we will review the different types of hashing algorithms in use today for data integrity. We will compare and contrast symmetric and asymmetric encryption algorithms, and finally delve into digital signatures and certificates. We will review PKI tomorrow.

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