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# Introduction - Cryptography and wireless security

This chapter covers how SSL/TLS uses cryptographic tools to secure data, and how the IEEE 802.11 standard provides a basis for a wireless security management framework

## Chapter 5: Cryptography and wireless security

This chapter covers how SSL/TLS uses cryptographic tools (symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing) to secure data over the Internet, and how the IEEE 802.11 standard provides a basis for a wireless security management framework (client authentication, message privacy, and message integrity).

**This chapter will help students:**

* Develop a foundational understanding of how cryptographic tools (symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hashing) secure Internet communications via SSL/TLS.
* Understand how symmetric encryption (e.g., AES), asymmetric encryption (e.g., RSA), and hashing (e.g., SHA-256) secure data in transit.
* Describe how digital certificates and asymmetric keys enable authentication and message signing.
* Develop a practical understanding of RSA’s key generation, encryption, and signing capabilities.
* Describe the TLS handshake process, from negotiating cryptographic parameters to securely establishing a shared session key.
* Develop a practical understanding of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, its role in providing forward secrecy in TLS, and the underlying mathematics that make it secure.
* Understand how the IEEE 802.11 standard provides a basis for a wireless security management framework (client authentication, message privacy, and message integrity).
* Become familiar with key authentication methods and encryption and message integrity algorithms used in securing wireless networks.
* Compare wireless security protocols (WPA/WPA2/WPA3) and their authentication and encryption methods.

## Topics covered in this chapter

[Hashing algorithms and message integrity](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/hashing-algorithms-and-message-integrity.md)

[Cryptographic encryption and confidentiality](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/cryptographic-encryption-and-confidentiality.md)

[Message signing using asymmetric keys](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/message-signing-using-asymmetric-keys.md)

[Cryptographic authentication methods](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/cryptographic-authentication-methods.md)

[The SSL/TLS handshake](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/the-ssl-tls-handshake.md)

[How SSL/TLS uses cryptography](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/how-ssl-tls-uses-cryptography.md)

[Replay attacks and anti-replay methods](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/replay-attacks-and-anti-replay-methods.md)

[Wireless client authentication methods](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/wireless-client-authentication-methods.md)

[Wireless privacy and integrity methods](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/wireless-privacy-and-integrity-methods.md)

[Authentication and encryption in WPA, WPA2, and WPA3](/practical-foundations-in-cybersecurity/5.-cryptography-and-wireless-security/authentication-and-encryption-in-wpa-wpa2-and-wpa3.md)