I loved this course! It is unlike any I have taken before. All courses in this specialization have always included fun activities to make the taught content fun and understandable.
I was really impressed especially with the RSA portion of the course. It was really well explained, and the programming exercise was cleverly designed and implemented. Well done.
von Doug D
•It serves as a table of contents of the material which makes it useful to seek out other lecturers on YouTube. I wouldn't recommend someone uses this course by itself.
von liang t
•A good course for people who have no basic background in number theory , explicit clear explanation in RSA algorithm. Overall,a good introduction course.
von Konstantin K
•Formulas, formulas... lack of examples - lack of understandings. Though topics of the course are very useful and interesting.
Last quest was fascinating. But in my case notebook stopped giving me any results and I managed to get only 1/4 of tasks.
von Gholamreza S T
•This course is not deep and rigorous enough to familiarize you with fundamentals of Number Theory. It just covers some theorems! No reference book is suggested, and worst of all accent of teachers makes it really hard to understand the material.
von Prasad K
•Concepts are poorly explained. It is very hard to follow the instructors. Need better quality courses.
von Steven W
•This is a really is a special course. It doesn't have any puzzles like the first few but, you get to go on a RSA quest, ala cicada 3301, and practice your new cryptography skills. At the end of your quest you gain ultimate knowledge.
von Pedro H
•Really nice introduction to discrete math and basic algorithms. The content is quite basic, but as mentioned in the syllabus is for beginners. Still, for those of you who are at that level is worth taking this specialization.
von Pete W
•I was really impressed especially with the RSA portion of the course. It was really well explained, and the programming exercise was cleverly designed and implemented. Well done.
von William H
•My first experience with cryptography. The coding assignments are enough to make me think and ensure that I understood the concepts.
von Ashish D S
•Excellent course, this course is more about numerical theory behind cryptography.
It has excellent assignments using Python.
von Jinqiang Z
•in a short 4 weeks, it explains the theory of RSA well and also the RSA itself.
von Tomasz L
•The final project is absolutely awesome!
von ANTHONY R
•This is worse course I’ve taken as far as getting certified as far as exams, quizzes. Bad external tools that don’t work. Bizarre instructions to complete exams. And graders who have no clue as to what the issues, looking at questions in forums. The Notebook function is sometimes cumbersome. And use of it as educational material was confusing.However if just auditing, this course is great. And material is covered with seriousness, and goes beyond summary treatments in other crypto classes on schemes based on number theoretic concepts.
von Amy G
•This course was fantastic. It was easy to follow for someone with no previous number theory or cryptography background. Writing RSA encryption and implementing attacks at the end was very rewarding, and I loved the course's Final Quest solving a series of puzzles to find the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!
von Bhargav D
•It was indeed a great course. I already had the fundamentals of Cryptography and No. Theory but this course helped me brush up my fundamentals and the instructors kept things simple and concise and most importantly to the point at the same time. The puzzles, quizzes, and the quizzes in between the videos were awesome too.Thank You.
von UMAR T
•Excellent course by Vladimir Podolskii Associate Professor Computer Science,Michael Levin Lecturer Computer Science , and Alexander S. Kulikov Visiting Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering by Univ. of Sand Diego California and National Research University for teaching learners about cryptography.
von Srinath
•I loved this course! It is unlike any I have taken before. All courses in this specialization have always included fun activities to make the taught content fun and understandable.
von T K
•I cant think of any other best way of presenting cryptography to beginners. Everything presented in the course has some connection to cryptography, really enjoyed RSA quest.
von Michal B
•For me (as a number theory teacher) it was quite easy and fast, but I have enjoyed it and had fun!
von Greg M
•good material, good presentation, very good problem sets. thank you!
von Ruben G C
•Very funny and interesting course. Ideal to play with Python.
von Yordan S
•I really loved the final quiz. It was very interesting.
von Dmytro F
•Very good introductory course to number theory and RSA.
von Aditya D
•I really liked the structure of the topics
von SOURAV M
•Very nice course for beginners