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Re:Online Cryptography Course by Dan Boneh by johnwatson11218 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:22PM (#40238029)
I took an online cryptography course from this professor a few years back. It was very good.

Even though I have a background in math that class made me realize I don't want to be a professional cryptographer, which in itself is pretty nice. But all joking aside I really enjoyed the way that crypto systems were analyzed using demons and games to try and discern the random bit stream from the encrypted bytes.

Re:Online Cryptography Course by Dan Boneh by foma-roje on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:37PM (#40238218)
Same here. I also took the course from Coursera a few years ago and I really enjoyed it. The conclusion? It’s hard to get it right so don’t do crypto yourself! Quite cynical, but it kinda killed my interest in pursuing it further.
Re:Online Cryptography Course by Dan Boneh by kryptonomist on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:12PM (#40238660)
Yes, the Coursera title was "Cryptography I", so I was expecting another part, but ten years after, I still do not see any. A great course anyway.
Re:Online Cryptography Course by Dan Boneh by Ar-Curunir on Thursday May 02, 2024 @02:04PM (#40239410)
There's a running joke among cryptographers that Dan will release Crypto II next semester =)
Re:Online Cryptography Course by Dan Boneh by johnwatson11218 on Monday May 06, 2024 @12:38PM (#40276524)
Yes that is a lesson I took from it, I'm not sure if it was this class or another one that showed how crypto on a computer could be defeated by monitoring its power consumption while checking a password. Even though the code knew to wait a set amount of time whether or not the password was correct, it wasn't drawing any power after the first incorrect digit allowing attackers to workout the correct digits one at a time.