Sunday, December 1, 2013

Comment on Yannick's "Simple Introduction to Cryptography" SIC

First, a little story...
I didn't write down the URL of Yannick's videos, but I did remember the name of the website: gobblin.se. So I went to gobblin.se, and clicked on an arbitrary video, and I get an URL like this: http://gobblin.se/u/c3c3dille/. So my guess was that, the "u" stands for "user", and c3c3dille is the user name. So I tried to replace c3c3dille by "yannick", and I didn't find anything. Then I replace it by "sic" (word Yannick used to abridge "Simple Introduction to Cryptography"), then I found what I was looking for...Not so hard to hack, is it?

For those of you who can't find his videos, here is the URL: http://gobblin.se/u/sic/

In general, I like Yannick's videos a lot. His text is well written, well organized, and easy for cryptography beginners to understand. As a student of Télécom ParisTech, I certainly have heard of many concepts of cryptography, but they faded out of my mind as time passed, so Yannick's videos have reminded me of those old stories, which is sweet...

But I think it would be nicer to have subtitles, since some words are hard for the general audience to understand (but he has taken care to add text like "RSA" and "AES", which was important). Secondly, as a Chinese speaker, I'm very sensitive to French accents in English... So, subtitles would be nice.

Funny moment: Yannick's bed is sometimes well made, sometimes a mess, LOL.

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