Learn Cryptography in Go

Name: Learn Cryptography in Go [Full Course]
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Rating: 4.9 (59 reviews)
Author: Lane Wagner

Learn how encryption, password security, and ciphers work at a lower level than most developers are used to.

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Lane Wagner

Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.

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16 Hours

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What will you learn?

Ever wondered how your data stays safe online? This deep-dive in the Go programming language will teach you all about encryption, password security, ciphers, and more. After you master the fundamentals, you'll learn how each cryptographic primitive is used in real-world applications.

Chapter List

Symmetric Encryption

Learn the basics of cryptography: encrypting and decrypting a secret message with a key

Encoding

To be able to work with encrypted data, you need to understand how information is encoded in different formats

Brute Force

Learn about the most primitive, but most important kind of crypto attack

Caesar Cipher

Learn about the fundamentals of ciphers, starting with Julius Caesar's famous cipher

XOR

Study the importance of the XOR operation in cryptography and how it can be used to create the perfect cipher

Stream Ciphers

Stream ciphers can be used to encrypt data as it flows through a system

Block Ciphers

Block ciphers are commonly used to encrypt large amounts of data at rest, like entire hard drives

DES

DES is an older block cipher that's important to understand to appreciate modern block ciphers

AES

AES is a secure, modern block cipher that's used in many production applications

Asymmetric Encryption

Asymmetric encryption is used in HTTPS, digital signatues, and really anywhere two parties need to securely communicate

RSA

RSA is one of the most popular asymmetric encryption algorithms

Hash Functions

Hashing has many applications in cryptography, including password security and message integrity

Digital Signatures

Digital signatures are a way to prove that a message was sent by a particular party

KDFs

Key derivation functions are how we derive keys from passwords or from other keys securely

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Aleksa Elezovic

Serbia

This one was fun! A really nice combo of learning things, quizzes and writing code!

(5/5)

Will Seele

Netherlands

Great course, after learning some Cryptography elsewhere, this was a perfectly paced Crypto intro fo...

(5/5)

plusko

Austria

good

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Maverick Trinh

Ho Chi Minh City

Thank you for this course. Before I took it, I didn’t know anything about securing passwords, hashin...

(5/5)

Dmytro Chumakov

Ukraine

I went into this course thinking I had a good grasp on things but this is a true deep dive that will...

(5/5)

Barry Barrette

United States

Excellent intro to basic concepts in Cryptography for software developers in general and Go develope...

(5/5)

Voy Lento

Cádiz, España

SO long, and tedious topic of cryptography... but it was definitely worth it.

(5/5)

yanmo

Seoul, Korea

Cryptography only on a theoretical is so difficult to grasp. Practical, hands-on, creating your own ...

(5/5)

Harold Hernandez

San Jose Del Monte City, Philippines

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Learn Cryptography in Go

Learn how encryption, password security, and ciphers work at a lower level than most developers are used to.

Lane Wagner

Allan

Matt

Hunter

Dan

What will you learn?

Chapter List

Join 3,368 students in the Learn Cryptography in Go course

Read reviews of their learning experiences

useful to know all of these stuff

This one was fun! A really nice combo of learning things, quizzes and writing code!

Great course, after learning some Cryptography elsewhere, this was a perfectly paced Crypto intro fo...

good

Thank you for this course. Before I took it, I didn’t know anything about securing passwords, hashin...

I went into this course thinking I had a good grasp on things but this is a true deep dive that will...

Excellent intro to basic concepts in Cryptography for software developers in general and Go develope...

SO long, and tedious topic of cryptography... but it was definitely worth it.

Cryptography only on a theoretical is so difficult to grasp. Practical, hands-on, creating your own ...

Mediocrity doesn't cut it anymore

The only way to become a great developer is to write a lot of code

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