Spring 2019

Paper Reading Questions

For each paper, your assignment is two-fold. Before lecture:

  • Submit your answer for each lecture's paper question via the submission web site in a file named lecn.txt, and
  • Submit your own question about the paper (e.g., what you find most confusing about the paper or the paper's general context/problem) in a file named sqn.txt. You cannot use the question below. To the extent possible, during lecture we will try to answer these questions. If you submit your question before midnight the day before lecture, then there is a chance we will answer by email. Below, we have included the questions we've received from students in past years (when available), along with answers to those questions, in case you find it helpful.

Lecture 17

As you are reading the paper on secure messaging schemes, try to figure out: how does email stack up against the proposed criteria for messaging? How hard would it be to adopt the techniques used in the various messaging systems to improve email security? What makes email different, if anything?

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