CS3216 Learning Outcomes In the Fall of 2019, I took a truly transformational class CS3216 at the National University of Singapore. The class is no ordinary class - it asks more of you, and gives more to you. At the end of the class, I wrote out the following reflection of my learnings from the …

The subject of Crytography has always been the subject of much media speculation and public interest, and has suffered the degree of distortion guaranteed of such topics. To an uninformed reader, it may appear that any meaningful understanding of Cryptography requires a strong mathematical …

Creating a Shared Secret In the previous section, we discussed the benefits of encrypting communications for the benefit of privacy. While this might seem sufficiently secure at a first glance, we will see that the practicalities of the real world demand the specification of a number of other …