Sciences

Overview

Applied sciences supporting the Technical Excellence goal, particularly in security engineering. Cryptography is foundational for PKI, authentication, and secure systems design.

Study Tracks

Track Status Description

Cryptography

Active

Symmetric/asymmetric encryption, hashing, PKI foundations

Goal Alignment

Primary: Technical Excellence

Secondary: - Financial Independence (security expertise commands premium) - Wisdom Accumulation (understanding how systems really work)

Applications in Practice

  • Vault PKI - Certificate management, CA operations

  • 802.1X EAP-TLS - Certificate-based authentication

  • SSH certificates - Short-lived credentials

  • Secrets management - Encryption at rest and in transit

  • CISSP Domain 3 - Cryptography domain knowledge

Future Tracks

Potential additions based on need: - Statistics - For log analysis, anomaly detection - Physics - RF fundamentals for wireless security - Information Theory - Entropy, compression, encoding

Related

  • Mathematics - Foundational math skills

  • Vault - Applied cryptography

  • PKI - Certificate operations