6.857: Computer and Network Security

[coolerq]

This term, one of the classes I'm taking is 6.857, Computer and Network Security. This week's problem set? Crack an encryption algorithm. No, really. They describe an encryption algorithm and tell you to crack it

Comments

[nelhage]

"5 minutes" is pretty meaningless. How many chosen plaintexts do you need, and roughly how much computation do you need on those?

[gigogurl]

That is an awesome assignment. Hopefully it's not a commonly used encryption algorithm?

I am amused that they ended the pset with "Please don’t issue denial of service attacks."