• Published by World Scientific Publishing. Available from the publisher (also as ebook) or from Amazon. The draft version of April'25 is available here. 

BibTex: @book{AiCC,  title={Applied Introduction to Cryptography and Cybersecurity},  author={Herzberg, Amir}, publisher="World Scientific Publishing", year={2026},  howpublished={ \url{https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/14014#t=aboutBook}}}

• Labs

• Lectures (except as noted, these are outdated - to be updated Real Soon Now; see also my presentations page  for additional cybersecurity and crypto presentations)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 protocol (version of 4/26); part 2: the handshake protocol (version of 4/14/26) You may also want to see the related lecture on Web security attacks and defenses (part of my network security lectures). 

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

  8. Human-centered cryptography