Cryptography & Secure Communications

Symmetric and public-key cryptography, hashing, signatures, key management, and secure protocols for connected vehicles and OTA updates.

Private cohorts & on-site
Format: 2-day (8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.)
Level: Intermediate
Location: Scheduled on demand · on-site at your facility or a regional venue
Date(s): Not yet scheduled for open enrollment. Get notified when it is, or book it privately for your team.
Includes: Certificate of Completion · printed slide binder · take-home reference text

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Faculty

Faculty details for this seminar will be announced with the full schedule.

Fees

Early: $1,895 (payment 4+ weeks ahead)
Standard: $2,095 (check/ACH) · $2,165 (card)

Group discount: $200 off per attendee for 3+ from the same organization.

Also Available

  • Corporate on-site delivery at your facility
  • Private cohort sessions
  • Digital curriculum licensing

Seminar Overview

Every connected vehicle, OTA update, and engineering data exchange now depends on cryptography — and the engineers who design the systems must understand the security primitives underneath. Built from MIT OpenCourseWare's cryptography and computer-science curriculum, this seminar teaches symmetric and public-key encryption, hashing, digital signatures, key management, and secure protocols, applied to automotive and industrial communications. It gives engineers the literacy to specify, evaluate, and reason about security — without being security specialists.

Ideal Learner

  • Engineers working on connected vehicle, OTA, and telematics systems
  • Embedded and systems engineers integrating secure communication
  • Engineers evaluating vendor security claims and architectures
  • ADAS and SDV engineers handling data security
  • Engineers responsible for data protection and auditability

Learning Objectives

  • Explain symmetric and public-key cryptography and their trade-offs
  • Apply hashing and digital signatures for integrity and authentication
  • Design and evaluate key management and secure protocols
  • Identify common cryptographic failures and misconfigurations
  • Specify secure communication for vehicle and industrial systems

Consulting Sessions

Seminar attendees can sign up for individual consulting sessions with the instructor. Sessions are free for registered attendees, first-come first-served — sign up when registering by calling 248-539-0473 or during the seminar.

Seminar Outline

  • Secrecy, integrity, authenticity — what each provides
  • Symmetric vs. asymmetric encryption
  • Threat models for engineering systems
  • AES and block cipher operation
  • Modes of operation and their failure modes
  • Key distribution challenge
  • RSA, ECC, and Diffie-Hellman
  • Key exchange and its protocols
  • Performance and suitability
  • Cryptographic hashes and integrity checks
  • Digital signatures and non-repudiation
  • Certificate authorities and chains
  • TLS/IPsec and secure channels
  • Key lifecycle, rotation, and storage
  • Hardware security modules and secure elements
  • Common crypto failures and attacks
  • Secure OTA, secure boot, and ECU authentication
  • V2X and connected-vehicle security
  • Attendees specify a secure communication architecture
  • Select primitives and key management
  • Present the threat-aware design

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