appliedcrypto/unit10_services

Investigation of Tokens, Authorization and Docker

The key concepts are:

• Token creation and usage, including JWT, Fernet, OAuth and ERC20.
• Federated ID systems.
• Outline of the usage of Docker for building security infrastructure for SSH and authorization.

What you should know at the end of unit?

• Define how ERC-20 tokens are used within Ethereum.
• Understand the scope of tokens and how they could be used for authorization.
• Define the signing methods used in tokens, such as with HMAC and RSA, and the weakness of token which are not signed (OAuth)
• Able to setup a simple Docker container which implements a security function.

Material

• Week 10 Lecture (Video): here.
• Week 10 Lecture (PDF): here
• Week 10 Lab (PDF): here.

Related topics

The following are some related presentations:

• JSON Web Tokens: here.
• Fernet Tokens: here.
• Fernet Tokens (with PBKDF2): here.
• Fernet Tokens (with Key rotation): here.
• Fernet Tokens (Autokeying): here.