Educational Resources

Dear Article19 Members, on this page you will find educational resources relevant to our expert group’s mission and interest. If you have ideas on new courses, slides, MOOCs and other educational content to be added here, please send your tips to ENISA Secretariat. Thank you!

eLearning

Georgia Tech: Digital Signatures Basics

This video explains in simple terms the basics of digital signatures and underlying public-key (asymmetric) cryptography. It is part of the Georgia Tech University course on Udacity Intro to Information Security that gives a broad technical overview of essential concepts and methods for providing and evaluating security in information processing systems (operating systems and applications, networks, protocols, and so on). In addition to its technical content, the course touches on the importance of management and administration, the place information security holds in overall business risk, social issues such as individual privacy, and the role of public policy.

ETSI: Standards for Trust Services and Digital Signatures

ETSI June 2021 webinar on standards for trust services and digital signatures. Many topics are covered: signature formats & verification procedures, standards for Trust Service Providers (TSPs) issuing certificates, supervision, certification and audits of TSPs under eIDAS, standards for identity proofing and remote signing, Trusted Lists & mutual recognition of non-EU Trust Services.. the complete webinar with slides is on YouTube, or you can download the slides separately here.

ETSI: Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs) and Qualified Certificates

In this lecture, ETSI’s Nick Pope explains basics of eIDAS Qualified Trust Service Providers (QTSPs), Qualified Certificates and other related topics. He touches on governmental supervision schemes of PKI and other related trust services, what's in a Qualified TSP, inner workings of web certificates or electronic seals, and policz requirements for TSPs ussuing Qualified Certificates.

University of Maryland: Cryptography

This MOOC by University of Maryland’s Jonathan Katz explains modern cryptography, with an eye toward practical applications including inner workings of Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI). Ther course contains introduction to classical cryptography, computational secrecy, private-key encryption, key exchange and public-key encryption and other related topics. You can find it on Coursera or just see the part on Public-Key Infrastructure.

Caltech, TUDelft: Quantum Cryptography

We often discuss the risk quantum computers present to standard puclic key (asymmetric) cryptography. In this course by Delft University of Technology and Caltech, they already moved to a next stage:) The course explains fundamental ideas of quantum cryptography, protocols and proofs of security for quantum key distribution, basics of device-independent quantum cryptography and much more.