[Cryptography] cryptography Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6

[Hanno Böck]

On Wed, 7 May 2014 21:45:11 +0530
Sanjeet Suhag <suhagsanjeet at gmail.com> wrote:

> I’m a 17 year old high school student currently studying for my last
> year in high school. I’m a student of the IB diploma and I have to do
> an extended essay, which is essentially a research paper on a topic
> related to any subject. As a programmer, I wanted to do something
> related to Computer Science. I have my fair share of technical
> knowledge of cryptography and it is clearly one of my favourite
> topics to do a research paper on. Since almost everything else has
> already been done in standard cryptography, I believe that a
> confluence of Quantum Computing and its affect on the current
> cryptographic standards would be useful. So, as most people out here
> have much more knowledge than me on topics like this, could you
> please suggest whether or not this is a feasible topic of
> investigation, or if not, is there anything else that I can do (i.e.
> some other technical aspect of Cryptography) ?

And I  forgot: If you really want to dig into the topic, there's
a lecture series on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJr0su61m1A

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Hanno Böck
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