COSC412

Resources

Key resources will eventually be collected on this page, however you should also examine the lectures page.

• Vagrant virtual machine setup. A repository is available on the CS Department's GitLab server that allows you to reproduce the virtual machine that David is using for some of the demos in lectures.
• Otago Echo Centre section for COSC412. Some recorded or prerecorded lectures are available on Otago Capture.
• Lecture 2:
  • Using the free enrolment option, please enrol in the Coursera Crypto I paper (Just from week 1: in Section 1 just “What is crypto” and “History”; and all of Section 2.).
  • Michael's notes on Discrete Probability
• Lecture 3:
  • Notes on security of PNGs and semantic security of stream ciphers.
• Lecture 4:
  • A riddle wrapped in an enigma.
• Lecture 5:
  • Andrew Odlyzko’s knapsack survey
  • The RSA attack by Lenstra et al.
  • RSA attack by Heninger et al.
  • Some smartcard vulnerability attacks
• Lecture 12: Resources for this lecture:
  • Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond
  • Where Will Quantum Computers Create Value—and When?
  • Commercialize early quantum technologies
  • Quantum Computing: Progress and Prospects (2019)