Encryption Academy: Digital Signature

Learn to protect your important Data and Identity

What You'll Learn:

  • Gain an understanding of how a digital signature can protect the integrity of data.
  • Learn practical skills for signing your documents to enhance their authenticity and security.

Description

In today's digital world, safeguarding data from unauthorized access is paramount, and encryption serves as a powerful tool in achieving this goal.

In this course, we'll explore digital signatures, addressing the critical question of how recipients can verify the authenticity of received emails and documents among the prevalence of email spoofing and phishing attacks. You'll discover how digital signatures work and their role in protecting data against manipulation and unauthorized alterations.

You'll learn practical techniques for calculating hash values over files, a crucial step in generating digital signatures. Furthermore, I'll guide you through the process of leveraging digital signatures with signed timestamps to enhance the security of PDF documents in Adobe Reader. By signing documents with timestamps, you'll be able to provide indisputable evidence of their existence at specific points in time, bolstering their authenticity and integrity.

Key Learning Areas:

Digital Signature - Introduction:

  • Understand the concept of a digital signature and its significance in ensuring data integrity and authenticity.
  • Explore the requirements for creating and using a digital signature effectively.
  • Learn about the different types of digital signatures and their applications in various contexts.
  • Engage in practical exercises to apply for a trusted certificate, generate a certificate signing request, and create your own key material for signing purposes.
  • Gain hands-on experience in applying for a trusted certificate through a step-by-step tutorial.

Digital Signature - Sign and Verify E-Mails:

  • Discover how email signatures work and their role in verifying the authenticity of emails.
  • Learn how to sign an email using software such as Outlook to enhance its authenticity and security.
  • Practice verifying a signed email in Outlook to ensure its integrity and authenticity.
  • Engage in practical exercises to sign and verify emails, enhancing your understanding of digital signatures in email communication.

By completing these lessons, you'll develop a comprehensive understanding of digital signatures and their practical applications, equipping you with the skills needed to sign and verify emails securely and protect the integrity of your digital communications.

Instructor: I'm Mike Kurtze, an engineer from Germany with over a decade of experience as a senior software developer specializing in encryption. Through the Encryption Academy for Beginners, I'm dedicated to sharing my expertise and knowledge to empower individuals like you with the skills and tools needed to protect sensitive data effectively.

Join me in this course to gain insights into how encryption works and discover the tools at your disposal for safeguarding your data and identity against security threats.

Who This Course Is For: This course is designed for anyone seeking to secure their data and identity through encryption. Whether you're a business professional, an individual user, or anyone concerned about data security, this course will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed.




Your Instructor


Mike Kurtze
Mike Kurtze

Mike Kurtze has been successfully working as a senior software engineer in the field of cryptography for over 18 years and also lectured at the HTW-Berlin for three years. His portfolio includes symmetric, asymmetric encryption, digital signature, Asn.1 & TLV, digital certificates and PKI. In these areas he successfully developed projects in software development with the technologies OpenSSL and Bouncycastle, both in the programming language Java and in C/C++.

He developed the seminar "Digital Signature / Cryptography" and has already taught it to over 3000 employees from various companies.


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Course Curriculum


  Training Overview
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  Digital Signature - Introduction
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  Digital Signature - Sign and Verify E-Mails
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Frequently Asked Questions


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