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Cryptography in undergrad was a course like that at my school. Here is the most basic understanding of group theory we can possibly get away with, here is how i

Cryptography in undergrad was a course like that at my school. Here is the most basic understanding of group theory we can possibly get away with, here is how it applies to RSA. Next lecture now we're moving on to elliptical curves.... Perhaps some topics are simply too big to really teach effectively through lectures. You need to go digging on your own to understand all the myriad details, and put in the hours alone with a textbook.

adrianN 9y ago
The point of those lectures, especially in undergrad, is to reduce the "unknown unknowns". You don't know that you could look up how some technique actually works if you haven't ever heard about it. If you want all the details you need good textbooks, or, for more advanced topics, the original papers.