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.
Once you submit your own question and answer (or after the deadline
has passed), you can view the
questions
and
answers
that other students submitted.
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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