Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography

Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by eponeponepon on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:38AM (#13090029)

This is about to eat my weekend, I think! :)

Quite seriously, this is exactly what the tech world needs - personally, I know that in terms of understanding of crypto I'm streets ahead of the average Joe, but orders of magnitude behind people who actually know the field. I'm certain I'm far from alone in that set, but the way the world's going means that we with the generalised technical know-how have a moral impetus to bring the rest of the world up to speed with the whys and wherefores.

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by Gruselbauer on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:12PM (#13091891)

Logged in to post pretty much exactly this.

Since the author is reading this: thanks. Read the first few lines and am already hooked. I have been looking for a long time, but most texts on crypto are either way below my level of understanding or miles above. You're a godsend!

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by tscs37 on Friday December 02, 2016 @03:18PM (#13091930)

I'm not sure if it still applies, but there is a saying:

"There are maybe 5 people in the world that may call themselves cryptographers"

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by CodeMage on Friday December 02, 2016 @06:53PM (#13093312)

And they're called Alice, Bob, Chris, Dave and Eve.

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by tscs37 on Saturday December 03, 2016 @02:34AM (#13094825)

What about Mallory?

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by siberianbear on Saturday December 03, 2016 @08:08AM (#13095518)

Is that you, Mr. Hintjens?

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by Ar-Curunir on Friday December 02, 2016 @11:23PM (#13094293)

Carol is the preferred C party :P

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by milansm on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:13AM (#13095944)

> I'm streets ahead of the average Joe

Has anyone seen "streets ahead" being used by anyone else besides Pierce Hawtorn and the OP? I mean, is it widely used now? (I'm not native speaker, obviously)

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by lethargic_meat on Saturday December 03, 2016 @09:54PM (#13098575)

I'm using it as much as possible just to push it into language.

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by tptacek on Saturday December 03, 2016 @10:41AM (#13096065)

I read it as a Pierce Hawthorneism.

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by eponeponepon on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:19PM (#13096473)

It's been common parlance in English for centuries.

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Re:Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography by marknadal on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:51PM (#13093789)

Same here, however I think it is better for us to talk about what we do know more, so that it increases the discussion and thus awareness and knowledge sharing (as well as getting corrected when wrong).

So we went out on a limb and made these 1 minute layman video explainers on cryptography: http://gun.js.org/explainers/data/security.html , I hope they are useful. Anything incorrect?

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