Focus: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Security
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Duration: 11 Hours
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OpenPGP Security - Module IX

• Introduction - Topology - Features
  • Discuss course outline
  • Explore system configuration
  • Identify key systems to be used
  • Explore network topology
  • Enumerate and discuss key OpenPGP features
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• Explore GPG Configuration
  • Identify installed GPG packages in various Linux distros
  • Discuss the key contents of those packages
  • Explore configuration hierarchy
  • Discuss security as it pertains to private key management
  • Explain the purpose of public and private keys
  • Discuss symmetric and asymmetric encryption provided by OpenPGP-compliant Apps
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• Generate | Import | Export OpenPGP Usage Keys
  • Discuss features and benefits
  • Obtain shell access on remote systems
  • Generate usage (private|public) keys
  • Identify the generated keys
  • Discuss how usage keys are used
  • Generate usage keys on remote systems
  • Export OpenPGP public key chain on various systems
  • Import OpenPGP public keys on various systems
  • Evaluate the results of exchanging public keys
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• Digital Signatures
  • Discuss features and benefits as they pertain to data integrity
  • Identify default digital signatures on multiple hosts
  • Explain the differences between signing and encrypting correspondence
  • Sign and export data to remote systems - Inline
  • Create detached OpenPGP signatures for data
  • Confirm the signed data on the remote systems
  • Recap non-repudiation benefits provided by digitally signing correspondence
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• Encryption | Decryption | Sign & Encrypt Content
  • Discuss features and benefits
  • Generate files for usage
  • Encrypt content using symmetric (shared-key) algorithm
  • Decrypt content using the shared-key, based on the symmetric algorithm
  • Evaluate results on multiple machines
  • Explain caveats associated with symmetric encryption
  • Encrypt content to a given recipient, using their public key - asymmetric encryption
  • Decrypt content on various hosts
  • Attempt to decrypt content without the corresponding private key
  • Evaluate results
  • Encrypt using ASCII-armoured and binary (OpenPGP-compliant) formats
  • Decrypt both ASCII-armoured and binary formats
  • Recap encryption decryption processes
  • Discuss the requirements of signing and encrypting content
  • Sign and encrypt content to various recipients
  • Confirm signed and encrypted content
  • Attempt to confirm and decrypt content as the unintended recipient
  • Evaluate results
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• OpenPGP Key Management | Web of Trust | Internet Key Distribution
  • Discuss features and benefits
  • Explore GPG key management facility
  • Update properties of public/private key pairs
  • Add sub-keys to public/private key pairs
  • Sign remote users' public keys
  • Evaluate results
  • Discuss the web of trust functionality
  • Create a web of trust with various hosts
  • Evaluate trust confirmation
  • Discuss the features of OpenPGP Internet key distribution servers
  • Generate and upload public keys to an Internet key server
  • Download the uploaded public keys to the public keyrings of various hosts
  • Evaluate results
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• Perl Scripting with GPG
  • Discuss features and benefits
  • Create a Perl script to backup key directories and files
  • Ensure that the script GPG-protects the content post-backup
  • Include error-handling to ensure that each step of the script is routed appropriately
  • Configure the script to transfer the encrypted content to a remote host ust 'scp'
  • Evaluate results
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• OpenPGP (GPG | PGP Desktop) on Win32
  • Discuss features and benefits
  • Download and install GPG for Win32
  • Generate usage keys
  • Exchange public keys with a user on a Linux system
  • Sign and encrypt content to and from the Win32 user
  • Confirm results
  • Download and install GPG4WIN (GUI-based GPG for Win32)
  • Explore features
  • Sign and encrypt content to and from the Win32 user
  • Confirm results
  • Integrate GPG4WIN with MS Outlook
  • Sign and encrypt e-mail messages
  • Confirm and decrypt e-mail messages
  • Install PGP Desktop for Win32
  • Explore features and interface
  • Generate usage keys
  • Exchange public keys with Linux user
  • Sign and encrypt content to and from the Win32 user using PGP Desktop
  • Evaluate results
  • Draw parallels between Win32 based OpenPGP tools and GPG for Linux | Unix
  • Recap OpenPGP functionality included in /GPG|GPG4WIN|PGP Desktop/
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