{"id":180,"date":"2006-12-11T10:09:13","date_gmt":"2006-12-11T10:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2006-12-11T10:09:13","modified_gmt":"2006-12-11T10:09:13","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 8: Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Psst &#8230; one-way functions?  Pseudorandom generators?  Lattices?  RSA?  Come and get &#8217;em, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec8.html\">in plaintext<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gus Gutoski took notes for this &#8220;all about cryptography&#8221; lecture, and they were so good that I&#8217;ve posted them with only moderate editing and joke-reinsertion.  I&#8217;ve thereby provided you, my readers, with the unique opportunity to experience my lecture <em>as Gus himself experienced it<\/em> &#8212; as if you actually <em>were<\/em> Gus, sitting in a real Waterloo classroom taking notes.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who feel the need to prepare yourselves for this experience, here&#8217;s a recap of all the lectures so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec1.html\">Lecture 1<\/a> (9\/12): Atoms and the Void<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec2.html\">Lecture 2<\/a> (9\/14): Sets<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec3.html\">Lecture 3<\/a> (9\/19): G\u00f6del, Turing, and Friends<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec4.html\">Lecture 4<\/a> (9\/21): Minds and Machines<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec5.html\">Lecture 5<\/a> (9\/26): Paleocomplexity<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec6.html\">Lecture 6<\/a> (9\/28): P, NP, and Friends<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec7.html\">Lecture 7<\/a> (10\/3): Randomness<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec8.html\">Lecture 8<\/a> (10\/5): Crypto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font color=\"red\"><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/font> Preparing these notes is a sh&#038;tload of work for me.  So dude &#8212; if you want me to keep doing it, please let me know in the comments section if you&#8217;re actually reading the notes and deriving any benefit therefrom.  Constructive criticism would also be fantastic.  Thanks very much!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Psst &#8230; one-way functions? Pseudorandom generators? Lattices? RSA? Come and get &#8217;em, in plaintext. Gus Gutoski took notes for this &#8220;all about cryptography&#8221; lecture, and they were so good that I&#8217;ve posted them with only moderate editing and joke-reinsertion. 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