CMSC818F

Advanced Topics in Computer Systems; Cryptography and Hostile Governments

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The course is a seminar structured around a course project and student led paper presentations on student selected topics including private information retrieval, blind signatures, cryptocurrency/blockchains, zero-knowledge proofs and zkSNARKs, mixnets, and multi-party computation. This course is intended for computer science graduate students and advanced undergraduates with an interest in the area. Undergrads should have taken a previous security or cryptography class.

Sister Courses: CMSC818B, CMSC818C, CMSC818D, CMSC818E, CMSC818G, CMSC818I, CMSC818J, CMSC818K, CMSC818L, CMSC818N, CMSC818O, CMSC818P, CMSC818Q, CMSC818R, CMSC818T, CMSC818V, CMSC818W, CMSC818X, CMSC818Y

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During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.

Average GPA of 3.52 between 66 students*

CMSC818F Grade Distribution+-05101520253035404550556065707580% of studentsABCDFWother
A-: 12.12%
A: 37.88%
A+: 28.79%
B: 3.03%
B+: 1.52%
F: 1.52%
W: 7.58%
other: 7.58%
* "W"s are considered to be 0.0 quality points. "Other" grades are not factored into GPA calculation. Grade data not guaranteed to be correct.