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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Cryptography and Information Theory by University of Colorado System

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About the Course

Welcome to Cryptography and Information Theory! This course combines cryptography (the techniques for protecting information from unauthorized access) and information theory (the study of information coding and transfer). More specifically, the course studies cryptography from the information-theoretical perspectives and discuss the concepts such as entropy and the attacker knowledge capabilities, e.g., Kerckhoff's Principle. It also contrasts information-theoretic security and computational security to highlight the different train of thoughts that drive the cryptographic algorithmic construction and the security analyses. This course is a part of the Applied Cryptography specialization....

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CF

Oct 26, 2021

Great introduction to cryptography. Professor was clear and concise in his explanations and the work required was reasonable. Overall a good experience, looking forward to the next class.

SS

Jul 3, 2020

The course gave me very good basics in Cryptography. Especially, the attacker perspective, which is the most important aspect of Cryptography.

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By Janusz S

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Mar 2, 2023

It was a bit too easy. I did not find the content precise (let alone formalized), it also was not preparing for real world applications

By Dev B

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Jun 1, 2020

Entire course (supposed to be ~4 weeks) amounted to the amount of information you'd get in one college lecture session

By surendra c

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Jun 26, 2020

its a very good course for the starting in the Security field.

By Yasmin E

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Jul 19, 2020

The course is too short

By Justin K

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Mar 16, 2022

There is little to take away from this course other than the Information Entropy formula. The questions are poorly formatted (one of them asked to evaluate "the following true false statement" and the statement had no true false evaluation). The questions in the quizzes appear to have been given little though, and are primarily computation, or true false. There is little to actually unpack, and to even attempt to understand. The lecture styles aren't organized, or informative. The instructor either doesn't present enough, or presents too much, on a given topic, and when writing they often try to cram EVERYTHING at the end, rather than starting a new slide. I'd have apprecaited it more if, instead of cramming their handwriting, when they attempted to summarize a topic, like information entropy, that they'd switch to a slide that was neatly typed or written, which clearly expresses what they'd hope for us to take away from that series of slides.

By Yurii U

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Nov 24, 2020

Very poor and waste of money and time