It was indeed an excellent course and for any would-be participants I recommend buffing up on discrete mathematics and number theory already if they're not your

It was indeed an excellent course and for any would-be participants I recommend buffing up on discrete mathematics and number theory already if they're not your strong suit. I found the course pretty hard as programmer with a strong interest in crypto, but no formal CS/maths background. The coding pieces were fairly straightforward, but the maths hurt.