Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-09 Thread John R. Black
Oops, I forgot about Neal! :embarrassed: He's a top-notch mathematician, has a couple of books on crypto (or crypto-related topics) and even wrote a controversial article with Menezes recently that was discussed on this mailing list. But I don't think he teaches a crypto class at UW?! On

Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-09 Thread John R. Black
It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U. Wash doesn't have any cryptographers. I hardly think that you can discount the skills of Josh Beneloh and Brian LaMacchia. Who is discounting? I said they are good

Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-09 Thread Greg Rose
At 16:29 -0600 2006/06/08, John R. Black wrote: It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U. Wash doesn't have any cryptographers. I hardly think that you can discount the skills of Josh Beneloh and Brian

Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-07 Thread Greg Rose
At 20:34 -0600 2006/06/06, John R. Black wrote: On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:57:25AM -0700, Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/04/1311243 It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U.

RE: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Tucker
: Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:57:25AM -0700, Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/04/1311243 It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U

Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-06 Thread Max
I do not understand why this course got so much attention. What is special about it (besides available video lectures)? I have a whole collection of links to similar courses. Please take a look at http://www-cse.ucsd.edu/users/maxal/e-books.html Just as an example, I can mention UCSD based

Re: U. Washington Crypto Course Available Online For Free

2006-06-06 Thread John R. Black
On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:57:25AM -0700, Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/04/1311243 It is taught by good people, but I find it a bit strange they are all Microsoft employees. This is perhaps because U. Wash doesn't have any cryptographers. That changes in