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Normally tptacek would be right here to shill for himself, but I don't see him around, so I'll say it for him: If you're interested in learning about the ideas
by aston 13y ago
Normally tptacek would be right here to shill for himself, but I don't see him around, so I'll say it for him:
If you're interested in learning about the ideas in this piece via practical attacks you perform yourself, you should definitely check out his company Matasano's Crypto Challenge:
http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
I've gone through the whole thing, and I can report that it's incredibly fun and incredibly enlightening. And you won't have to read a book to figure out that what Thomas is talking about here is legit.
- jensC 13y agoYes, I've heard about the Matasano's Crypto Challenge, but want to recommend Coursera's Crypto courses too: https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto
- mikevm 13y agoI've been thinking of taking it. Is it a rigorous crypto course at college level?
- dobbsbob 13y agoNot really that rigorous, there are some MIT courses available on cryptography engineering you can find on the web.tv MIT internal video server I've taken that are really good, covers common mistakes, why you should never do in-browser nonsense Java crypto, side channels ect. They are all recent lectures. There's also the implementation book on the Keccak NIST3 project website, same with their book on side channels and countermeasures. There's also this: http://achs.cs.ucsb.edu/schedule.html http://achs.cs.ucsb.edu/schedule.html which is a workshop in August on applied crypto and hardware which looks pretty amazing. University prof Patrick Schaumont always lists all upcoming applied crypto workshops https://twitter.com/pschaumont https://twitter.com/pschaumont and he also has a lot of publications out: http://www.ece.vt.edu/schaum/pubs.html http://www.ece.vt.edu/schaum/pubs.html
- wglb 13y agoIt is a good course. However, you will learn a whole other approach of how to break all things crypto from the Matasano course.
- rwg 13y agoPersistence is key to participation -- they've got almost 10,000 participants, and e-mails seem to fall through the cracks sometimes. (I've been trying to turn in my set 4 answers for two weeks. Hopefully some filter isn't eating my e-mails because they contain the phrase "#YOLOSWAG"...)
- sdevlin 13y agoApologies on this, and thanks for your patience. This is something we work on in our spare time, and we've got a bit of a backlog at the moment. I'm going to try to find time to power through most of this over the weekend. As you say: persistence is key. We get a lot of emails. If you feel like you've slipped through the cracks, don't hesitate to ping us again!
- jessaustin 13y agoAh, OK, I don't feel so bad now. I didn't realize so many people had joined this. Kudos to the organizers for taking on such a huge task, and sticking with it.
- tptacek 13y agoCurrent standings, in case you're intested: level 0 (8490), level 1 (675), level 2 (193), level 3 (67), level 4 (64), level 5 (42), level 6 (62) (Each is people currently at that level). We're still donating for every person who actually finishes. Level 7 should be out ~nextweekish.
- jessaustin 13y agoIf I've turned in a problem set but haven't gotten a response, at which level am I counted? b^) Sorry, I can't resist being a dick. Ignore me until I'm up to two weeks like the guy above...
- tptacek 13y agoYou're not being a dick! Mail me directly if you've submitted responses and it's been a few days; totally possible we lost you somewhere.