On: You are dangerously bad at cryptography

[epsylon]

Try Dan Boneh's crypto course on coursera [1]. It covers quite a lot of ground, both practical and theoretical, and includes programming exercises similar to the matasano puzzles. Without a doubt it's one of the best courses of the dozen MOOCs I've taken. There's also a followup course [2] (I haven't taken it yet personally, but I believe the currently scheduled run will be the first).

Interestingly enough, there's also an upcoming security course (with no date planned yet) which will cover the application programming part of security and will be co-taught by him. [3]

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto [2] https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2 [3] https://www.coursera.org/course/security

[cryptbe → epsylon]

Glad that you like Dan Boneh's crypto class. I made the programming exercises :-).

[stavros → cryptbe]

They were very well done, and I loved the course overall, so congrats. I like how Dan knows how to preemptively answer every question I had.