Re: Cypherpunk U

[Jeremiah A Blatz <jer+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

Tim May <tcmay@got.net> writes:
> At 2:17 PM -0700 7/19/97, Nick West wrote:
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> >What are some of the better colleges/universities to study
> >Computer/Network security at? I know MIT is a good one. Any others
> >that aren't quite so hard to get in to that still offer quality
> >programs?
> 
> Do you mean for grad school, or for undergrad work?
> 
> If the former, look for where the papers that interest you are coming from.
> That is, whom do you want to work with? UC Berkeley is obviously doing
> interesting work, Purude has some well known folks, and Carnegie-Mellon is
> in the home city of CERT (maybe not a recommendation...). And Stanford is
> always a hotbed. At least a dozen other places are doing fine work.
> 
> If for undergrad work, you of course won't have any exposure to speak of in
> these areas, save for one or two courses. Maybe.

CMU does lots of real world crypto stuff, mostly centering around
Kerberos. There's some good theory here, too. In addition, NetBill
(book-entry bastards) does some crypto. If you were interested in
working one of those projects, you could easily do so as an undergrad.
There's also one "number theory" class which is basically crypto 101.
As for grad work, if you're interested in number theory and such, you
could do well here. Otherwise, you might consider somewhere else.

Allumnusly yours,
Jer

BTW, the administration here is a bunch of bloody facists.

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