Sam wrote:
If you like the course then perhaps you could give us a talk on what you will have learned at some stage :)
If I get through it ok, then I most certainly will :-)
It isn't going to be easy - they dive straight into the maths - and require students to code their own cipher-cracking software from scratch. Interstingly, the examples are written in Python. However, in the interest of speed I've actually resorted to coding in good old MS QBASIC for the first week's homework - as I'm more at ease with the array handling syntax (students are allowed to use any language they want to generate the answers).
By the way, I found this excellent site on the legal aspects of cryptography http://rechten.uvt.nl/koops/cryptolaw/
David