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Schneier on SecurityA blog covering security and security technology. « If the NSA Surveillance Happened in the European Union | Main | Friday Squid Blogging: The Cephalopod Page » June 2, 2006University Crypto Class Materials Available OnlineYou can audit "Welcome to Practical Aspects of Modern Cryptography." It was taught at the University of Washington, Winter 2006, by Josh Benaloh, Brian LaMacchia, and John Manderdelli. The course materials and videos of the lectures are online. Posted on June 2, 2006 at 12:21 PM • 18 Comments • View Blog Reactions To receive these entries once a month by e-mail, sign up for the Crypto-Gram Newsletter. Well, at least the recommended books are from a respected author. ;-) Tim Posted by: Tim at June 2, 2006 12:47 PM Nice. Assignments are available in PS, PDF, DOC, TXT, PPT... depending upon assignment number. "At least there's no LaTeX docs there" Posted by: Pat Cahalan at June 2, 2006 1:10 PM @Sideline: oddly enough, no. Winter quarter always runs January thru March, so Winter 2006 started in January 2006. Posted by: Spouse of former UW student at June 2, 2006 4:18 PM Interestingly, Josh Benaloh "disses" Bruce's Applied Cryto book by calling it a "popular" book, but _not_ a "good" book. See the first 10 minutes or so of the first class video. Josh even goes on to say there are many errors in Applied Crypto and warns the students that if he finds this book on developers bookshelves, he becomes worried. Posted by: StillLikeAppliedCrypto at June 2, 2006 4:41 PM @StillLikeAppliedCrypto: "Josh Benaloh is a Cryptographer in Microsoft Research." (from http://research.microsoft.com/~benaloh/) He is worried by Microsoft's developers having Applied Crypto on their bookshelves. Me - just the opposite. Posted by: ILikeAppliedCryptoToo at June 2, 2006 5:16 PM any ideas on how to download to videos to watch on my next business trip? Posted by: bobm at June 2, 2006 5:26 PM I think that's the first time I've heard anyone "diss" Applied Crypto. Posted by: Pat Cahalan at June 2, 2006 6:47 PM @bobm: Download the "Downloadable WebViewer Archive," it contains the raw .wmv in a .zip file. Posted by: Andy at June 3, 2006 9:49 AM @StillLikeAppliedCrypto I have not read it yet, which makes me interested in buying Bruce's book even more. Posted by: Jungsonn at June 3, 2006 12:18 PM Yep, in his first lecture Josh Benaloh complained Posted by: Pavel Feofilov at June 4, 2006 6:43 AM Bruce, did you actually watch the videos? the first lecturer was picking on Applied Cryptography :-) Posted by: Ghaith Nasrawi at June 4, 2006 4:03 PM "Bruce, did you actually watch the videos? the first lecturer was picking on Applied Cryptography :-)" That's okay. I've picked on the book myself. Posted by: Bruce Schneier at June 4, 2006 4:52 PM Posted by: Jungsonn at June 4, 2006 5:48 PM @Sideline: "I'm pretty sure Winter 2006 is in the future." Having just had the year's first heavy frost this morning, I can assure you this is not so. You might also believe (as I type this) that the 6th of June 2006 is in the future, but for me it is almost half over. Posted by: Anonymous at June 5, 2006 6:49 PM @Jungsonn: This states/demonstrates only that MD5 is broken (more precisely, its collission-resistance) but not why anything in Bruce's Applied Crypto book should be wrong. True, Bruce's book doesn't mention the vulnerability of MD5, but this is easily explained by the fact that it wasn't known yet at the time the book was printed. Posted by: Paeniteo at June 6, 2006 10:32 AM @Bruce your new book, the one expected in december, is it less or more technical than "Practical Cryptography"? Posted by: Ghaith Nasrawi at June 14, 2006 6:36 PM Post a comment
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