[Cryptography] What to put in a new cryptography course

[Kent Borg]

This sounds like a related question I was musing over recently: What 
would a course in cryptography for bankers look like?

I assume they know a lot of system stuff. From defining system 
boundaries to input validation to really simple checksums (the double 
entries balancing to zero). Further assume the bankers aren't 
programming their systems, but are in charge of them--they employ 
techies. They need to make sense at a high level.

Not that this is a unique position for just bankers, rather they seem an 
interesting proxy for a lot of folk in the world.


An analogy: I understand internal combustion engines--roughly.  I am not 
a mechanic but I can maybe sniff out whether my mechanic is telling me 
something sensible. The world needs to be able to sniff out whether they 
crypto they are being sold might be snake oil.


-kb