• Textbook: Applied Introduction to Cryptography and Cybersecurity  (version of April 18th, 2025). To be published in 2026 by World Scientific Publishing (not yet available but apparently you can already order it). 

BibTex: @book{AiCC,  title={Applied Introduction to Cryptography and Cybersecurity},  author={Herzberg, Amir}, publisher="World Scientific Publishing", year={2026},  howpublished={Online at \url{https://sites.google.com/site/amirherzberg/crypto-cyber-book}}}

• Labs

• Lectures (outdated - to be updated after textbook is done; see also my presentations page  for additional cybersecurity and crypto presentations)

  1. Encryption and pseudorandomness

  2. Message authentication

  3. Hash, digest and blockchain schemes

  4. Shared key protocols

  5. Public key cryptography: part I (key exchange), part II (encryption)

  6. TLS/SSL: part 1: introduction and the record layer (version of 3/26); for now, for the rest of the slides, you can see the older lecture on TLS/SSL protocols and web-security

  7. Public key infrastructure (updated 3/26). At the end, contains some additional exercises (beyond those in textbook). 

  8. Human-centered cryptography