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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Cryptography I by Stanford University

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About the Course

Cryptography is an indispensable tool for protecting information in computer systems. In this course you will learn the inner workings of cryptographic systems and how to correctly use them in real-world applications. The course begins with a detailed discussion of how two parties who have a shared secret key can communicate securely when a powerful adversary eavesdrops and tampers with traffic. We will examine many deployed protocols and analyze mistakes in existing systems. The second half of the course discusses public-key techniques that let two parties generate a shared secret key. Throughout the course participants will be exposed to many exciting open problems in the field and work on fun (optional) programming projects. In a second course (Crypto II) we will cover more advanced cryptographic tasks such as zero-knowledge, privacy mechanisms, and other forms of encryption....

Top reviews

BH

Jan 13, 2020

Provides a comprehensive introduction to cryptographic history, current technology, best practices and known attacker techniques. A great deal of material is covered in a relatively compact program.

LG

Dec 15, 2017

This course gives is perfect to start learning cryptography, explanations are detailed, topics carefully selected combining theory with real world examples and making emphasis in important details.

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By pranjul s

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Oct 22, 2017

Nice

By PEYRARD T

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Aug 30, 2016

The course is clear and goes at a sustained but correct pace. I really like the fact to show the weakness to understand what are the requirements of a secure PRF, PRP & co!

Optional programming assignments are really interesting unfortunately they take too much time to do and lack of guidance as it could be the case for the famous ML course. At least the first exercises should provide a development environment to get familiar with: hex, crypto libs, dictionary research, stats algorithms implementation ...

The first two weeks lack of in-video tests.

By Luca D

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Nov 21, 2024

Some lessons seems cut to fit Coursera, some non trivial concepts should be explained deeper with more examples and exercises similar to one asked in tests. I presume the Coursera edition is a subset of the real lessons prof. Boneh teaches in Stanford.

By Diego J H

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Sep 16, 2017

The course was very good, but the pace was too fast, so eventually became the problem because it is

very difficult to follow. Anyway, it opened a new world to me and I'm willing to review many topics covered in this course

By Shahbaz H

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Jul 24, 2018

Very nice course , sometimes along there was some difficulty occurs but the support staff n teacher helps me a lot.Some practical implementation also missing from course.

By 黃筑渝

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Sep 30, 2019

a little bit hard for no computer basic people

By Adarsh P

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Apr 2, 2023

certificate does not show the name of learner

By iacopo g

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May 11, 2023

I needed support books

By 王尔雅

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Jul 2, 2022

so hard.

By Daniel C

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Sep 29, 2022

Aulas muito longas

Formador fala muito rápido

By Агеенко Г М

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Feb 20, 2021

Не выдали сертификат. Лекции полезные.

By Щанкин С

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Mar 21, 2022

very little practice

By rverker

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Jun 15, 2024

This course is not for beginners. It requires mathematical and computer skills (e.g. Python is required) which are not mentioned in the description. The course material is not well done, as it's just notes. The instructor goes too fast and doesn't explain things well. There are no examples, it's all very theoretical. The graded quizzes are very difficult, and completely at odds with what is said in class. Don't waste your time on this course, buy a good book, there are some out there.

By Luís C D A J

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Sep 7, 2016

Mentiroso, na descrição mostra que tem legenda para português porém o curso não tem legenda pt-br

By Deleted A

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Dec 1, 2021

this is not fulfill my well understanding