Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning
Professor Dan Boneh’s Cryptography I, ranked by the Online Course Report in March 2016 as the 11th most popular MOOC of all time, features problems in which the participant utilizes an interactive encryption tool to help two characters communicate privately in spite of a powerful adversary who wishes to eavesdrop. Cryptography I has been run on the Coursera platform more than 15 times reaching more than 650,000 participants in total. The course includes written problem sets featuring interactive encryption tools developed by the course professor.