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The document introduces encryption and cryptography, focusing on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and its advantages over the older Data Encryption Standard (DES). It explains the key lengths of AES and the challenges faced in cracking DES, highlighting AES's robustness. Additionally, it discusses the use of Kleopatra for PGP encryption, detailing the process of using public and private keys for secure communication.

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The document introduces encryption and cryptography, focusing on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and its advantages over the older Data Encryption Standard (DES). It explains the key lengths of AES and the challenges faced in cracking DES, highlighting AES's robustness. Additionally, it discusses the use of Kleopatra for PGP encryption, detailing the process of using public and private keys for secure communication.

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Introduction to Encryption

Cryptography plays a key role in cyber security, from implementing Digital Signatures to providing integrity to data
transfer to protecting sensitive data and communications.

In this week’s lab we will look at the prominent AES standard for data encryption and privacy.

AES known as Advanced Encryption Standard created in 1999

DES stands for Data Encryption Standard created in 1976.

Key Length for AES can usually be 128-bits, 192-bits, and 256-bits. While the old defunct DES was 56.

DES can now be cracked quite quickly, there were challenges run in the community to try to crack the lifetime of this
is seen below:

You can look at the time taken by the 3 DES Challenges:

DES Challenge 1 = 140 days


DES Challenge 2 = 41 days
DES Challenge 3 = 56 hours

AES is now the standard and has yet to be cracked, it is said that it may possibly take 36 quadrillion years.
More info on the above can be found here : https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-aes-and-des-
ciphers/

We will look at Kleopatra the free software suite supporting PGP encryption – Pretty Good Protection.

This is implementing Asynchronous encryption methods, using public and private key implementation.

Simply put, the public key is made available to all, William wishes to send an encrypted message to Kent

Kent makes his public key available to William, William encrypts his message with Kent’s public key and send the
message. Kent being the only holder of his private key, uses the private key to decrypts William’s message.

The process is illustrated above.


Download Kleopatra from the following link: https://www.gpg4win.org/thanks-for-download.html

The process is also completed on the below Link:


If you want to export and share your public PGP

Save to your machine

Open to view and copy in text editor e.g


Sublime / Notepad++

https://www.sublimetext.com/ https://notepad-
plus-plus.org/downloads/

Once opened you should see something like the


below:

You can then share this public key for others to


use to send you messages. Others would encrypt
the message with your public key as shown here
and only you being the holder of the private key
can decrypt.
Example:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

mQGNBGBzGpwBDADDxHiND8JwVnzBOVDF0Th1ezB2uwyOji3cXsxPN86Ypk6cQXm+

kGtqZz2CuyzkI+N2PPHzZ2ubg62COh/SOZDewnieUK65BiCRW5xSHk8XAdYPpEQO

ZOAV1aSB3fSxoJ3cbuW4H/zVVlo7Efq+HOPSxh8QjfFt9IgFiuH+wRyS52R3hH/O

QHoXIgWn4/vnqjWO7zjS0AOVViDfk/YWtQVjp60bk5VnjgvxSJWpdNvGMJOOT46v

ex1J3Pv8KpzIduVxNP1+cB4HmHdWN+XXOpwj4nUr4oapsjorjriKkjsuVSjloNcq

xDies4TYGlwhBkqwPZiCLUEMO2V5+0CMA6pPKrmGFGn7CxfZTBAGRGnlXxVidQgr

zQ3tSNNfABNwq5Q45nrbtpyPCNUndPr5LdHcH74Z+TOnSNuUA8KYqc3pxO3myZOD

313bRjqB+wTIoCsvPaVDMnnUjjkhZ5MAvAE7SLEO8CQZEe3Gl1WTW/NZW/BVrgxn

zlexXNNCuAA4oDUAEQEAAbQMTXlOZXdLZXlQYWlyiQHUBBMBCAA+FiEER0yWj7gi

Qom4GM3iFkpTvTNlSTAFAmBzGpwCGwMFCQPCIxQFCwkIBwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwEC

HgECF4AACgkQFkpTvTNlSTB0jgv+LWKT/u3RjDoKBk2PhiFtGvzoz6P/U0K23oTn

tfq/JJ8+hPkjCZgmtqRQgpHhLtHqRoH4k6jgcBPDj+DjPItVFq0+2DR/jU2DDR0w

BVr6F1jcLLbgQT0VmpZ5nxOC+XmabYP8n6sijCDSKadZrbNXpF+azSiC8WicypaB

O3l5CcbnOwLJetXRkyx/7tMpfMLaKXMjrMM9V2caTm+PGIVjnHPcUuUlfmJeEyXg

ZEgQlNvuuy4MEabUo+bpd9/gREDXLlUjMLpqgoWoamFPXk6S46h0afRhp7FlouQt

Rjr2lsNEbmGBfkR8dioUZKfWhjEoFo+9V9CIP+ku2DJ7wEbZyj9DffoPQs9S7OXQ

8nvoVuiQCoapkEFce0SR7kIYl8YHTFR6pAAVwVo2eTMxmsmwmoaSvMMArODiDmM/

nrQ8PsiGlIvfY1GS6GeONxQOUj5du9kZPupcHBxYHkHMOKvM9K+WzAouxFe9vCnh

JrCF9/osDzsgdDk3HQCbFuKBdAn5uQGNBGBzGpwBDAC4SRJxN3aZUvpxIHqbriqq

M8uxNdPHFBR15YEgclkv7BAQ1AE7QCBrVfh8NPHFakW+8AQXFH31nPJIpXp1/aVl

oZrfS6+rRHlRRpDuMcRgxZ5rPnydqKyjaCwPZ0joYXkKGqJitMIyiwY556AvDSkM

tmqaz2k4TZBPOdH/bCdgCAHcne8sPeI+tkInarhClJ4hLxqR6Tv+mtXRh9c1hCZL

gm8SXV8GlnBGrFg9eM20OwsF3l3aU1mYxpsq0DVXMkQ+cnn/3N2NdSDOdPj/FNIQ

Gch2yt9rUet0ggLe0dKXdA3/a2yzovk24pHpEJm3TM5qc4RthoVhCww5eEph/2V3

hrnotirHmMnrzelpdhFB0SvG5knXA3sS7PQ2dysRXGye/XbRepfxNcN0nV0gTryA

U7iFlH56TAHnDxTE5VVUgBVaFA/kfUoYk4Zcgr0Va7bYFsn4LJxclsQwNz9MdKTR

/GQXUB+Ipb+jfCKibe8RXJGJihzhtTLgiZzpgRPpRakAEQEAAYkBvAQYAQgAJhYh

BEdMlo+4IkKJuBjN4hZKU70zZUkwBQJgcxqcAhsMBQkDwiMUAAoJEBZKU70zZUkw

dbMMAKiUoRKUc53V0C15kXJlBeNLInxO76yWp/KOrP0KPMjASRuZXvG6YFj3cWY3

ATNrMyJgr5O9V5+stSRJY7AOYHjD2Jc/0SxejKMXWhPm4LwP04Phgj5Rab2cajIc

8PGyX2q9ExtLAtnnx7KANiUDM5vySkkD8A2/8sixjnZhua/qgcjYwuhTteXXSnAe

623UcncgUHjuTJxIyKEh7fkBFuj31NPLZys4HdsY46obaspj/g6eEkWYKzMM2/Kw

lX8jAMGkgbtSsz2DmATdEdjpAYPknYlwq4N4Ltp9oUQh0sUAeWqwRX/zvFvA1ae8

xME/SiFgNUgKX8Hdv+8HVeNzQPGwpwOnF0BQKXvvUQmNSXqJkEnxUoMEwvndRYDr

BN1hcNYLYdyEeyvqdavEHWQ35M1mrWl49rNCIsYNdClZM5h34eBid76sdzRkIaly

Mh7ibx8G10hnS5jC8oyA/X1es5Y3JkdR/jdMYBDu33SEf+Qcahl44FyqdkDjPscz

Raa6Rg==

=B+mY

-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

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