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Reviewed on Jul 5, 2020
I love the course material and the professor's way of teaching. This course is very detailed and one of the hardest course I ever took on Coursera.
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Reviewed on Nov 12, 2016
Good course, but can get very deep at times, especially near the middle of the course.The first 2 weeks are rather simple, week 3 is okay, 4 and 5 are very detailed, and 6 and 7 are easier.
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Reviewed on Dec 29, 2020
The assignments were Really hard, but really made the course worthwhile. I have a much better framework for thinking about cryptography in general, now.
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