Cryptography for everybody: Basics of Cryptology Series (correct ordering)

In 2020 I started my “Basics of Cryptology” series on my “Cryptography for everybody” YouTube channel.

Right now, the series consists of 23 different videos. The videos cover topics from the beginnings of cryptology and basic terminology up to modern cryptology (e.g. RSA and AES).

While creating the series I jumped with the focus and created videos, as the topics came into my mind. Thus, today, I tried to order the videos to a “correct” order. Here is my current list 🙂

• Part 1 (Cryptography – Terminology & Classical Ciphers)
• Part 2 (Cryptanalysis – Terminology & Classical Ciphers)
• Part 22 (Modern Cryptography – Kerckhoff’s Principle & Security Goals)
• Part 17 (Cryptography/Cryptanalysis – Keyspace and Keyspace Size)
• Part 19 (Cryptanalysis – Unicity Distance & Check and Proof Cipher Solutions)
• Part 4 (Modern Cryptanalysis – Shannon’s Entropy and Brute-Force Attack)
• Part 3 (Modern Symmetric Ciphers – Stream Ciphers & Block Ciphers)
• Part 5 (Modern Cryptography – Stream Ciphers – RC4)
• Part 6 (Modern Cryptography – Block Ciphers – SPN Ciphers)
• Part 7 (Modern Cryptography – Perfect Ciphers and One-Time Pad)
• Part 9 (Modern Cryptography – Block Ciphers – Feistel Ciphers & SDES)
• Part 16 (Modern Cryptography – The Avalanche Effect)
• Part 12 (Modern Cryptography – Asymmetric Ciphers – Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange)
• Part 11 (Modern Cryptography – Asymmetric Ciphers – RSA)
• Part 13 (Modern Cryptography – Cryptographic Hash Functions)
• Part 14 (Modern Cryptography – Passwords)
• Part 15 (Modern Cryptanalysis – Rainbow Tables)
• Part 8 (Modern Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers – Hill Climbing)
• Part 10 (Modern Cryptanalysis of Classical Ciphers – Genetic Algorithm)
• Part 20 (Cryptanalysis – Cost & Fitness Functions – Language Models)
• Part 21 (Cryptanalysis – Cost & Fitness Functions – Index of Coincedence)
• Part 18 (Cryptography – Random Number Generators)
• Part 23 (Cryptography – Hybrid Encryption)

Clearly, you can just watch the videos as they are present in the YouTube playlist 🙂
Maybe, in the future, I will create a single long video, a new playlist, or maybe even re-create all videos. When I started creating my videos, my YouTube channel was new and I had not so much experience as I have now.

Nevertheless, I hope you’ll find my videos in that series interesting and helpful. If you have any questions, ideas, or wishes, feel free to write below this blogpost or directly below my videos in the comment section 🙂

Nils