Theory and languages
Cryptography
Ciphers, hashing, signatures and key exchange, with proofs of what they do and don't guarantee.
About 40 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
Dan Boneh, Victor Shoup
Part I, Secret key cryptography
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Cryptography I (Coursera)
Dan Boneh, Stanford
The whole course
The standard introduction, from the co-author of the book.
Free to audit.
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- Security analyst (SOC) in the first year
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