COMP3453 Notices

Sample CSE exam lab environment

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Monday 04 May 2026, 02:23:37 PM.

Hi all,

We have created a sample CSE exam lab environment. You can access the sample exam by following these steps:

1. Download TigerVNC: https://tigervnc.org/

2. VNC server: vlab.cse.unsw.edu.au:5920

3. Login:

Username: cs6453vx

Password: 6yhn7ujm

4. Use your zID and password to log in to the virtual exam lab environment:

5. You should be able to view this:

Right-click for the lecture slides, exam paper information, file browsers,.... Remember to click "save" after editing the .txt file to save your answer.

Please let us know if you need any help!

COMP3453/6453 teaching team.

Term Project Peer Review

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Saturday 02 May 2026, 01:13:31 AM.

Hi all,

Each group has been (randomly) assigned to review one other group within their topic. Please check the Excel sheet for more information: click here

All term projects are available: here

Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Best,

COMP3/6453 teaching team

Sample Exam

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Monday 27 April 2026, 07:16:08 PM.

Hi all,

Please find the sample exam here: sample exam

We're also currently setting up the sample CSE lab exam environment. It will be available shortly.

Best,

COMP3/6453 teaching team.

Term Project

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Tuesday 21 April 2026, 07:07:52 PM.

Hi all,

Just a reminder. Make sure you put down your individual contributions to the term project report. We will mark your term project based on your contributions. No marks will be given if there is no contribution.

Please let us know if you have any questions or need any help!

MyExperience Feedback

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Monday 20 April 2026, 01:04:29 PM.

Hi all,

The MyExperience feedback form for Term 1 is now available. It would be great if you could take a few minutes to complete it. Your feedback is valuable to us and helps improve the content for next year.

Thank you for your time!

COMP3453/6453 teaching team

End-of-Term Celebration – RSVP

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Sunday 19 April 2026, 02:42:06 PM, last modified Sunday 19 April 2026, 04:21:42 PM.

Hi all,

We'll be having an end-of-term celebration on Tuesday, 14:00 (after the lecture). For the tutorial on Tuesday, 14:00-15:00, we will merge it with the tutorial 15:00 -16:00. Therefore, we won't have a tutorial on Tuesday, 14:00-15:00.

Please fill out this form to confirm your attendance: click here

We would love to see you there!

Best,

Nhi

Meeting Link

Posted by Sushmita Ruj Thursday 09 April 2026, 10:20:06 AM.

Hi All,

Here's the meeting link for today's lecture.

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/41855690912206?p=lMB4Sts1H9j0QrhJS2

Thanks,.

Monday's Makeup class

Posted by Sushmita Ruj Thursday 09 April 2026, 07:59:39 AM.

Dear All,

As discussed in the class, we will have an extra class to make up for Monday's class. I will do the lecture today at starting 10:15 am in K17 Level 2 meeting room. If anyone is interested, please join in-person. It's always good to lecture when students are around, rather than recording alone. You can also join on Teams.

Slight change in the today's lecture content. I will teach Blockchain intro (from Week 9), instead of PQC. I want to teach PQC in person, as that is a bit more involved. So, we will do PQC on Week 9 Monday.

See you soon!

Sushmita

Assignment 1 Released

Posted by Sushmita Ruj Monday 09 March 2026, 05:58:36 AM.

Dear Students,

Assignment 1 is now up. The submission deadline is 2 weeks from now, Week 6, Monday 5 pm. The submission is on Moodle, which will be activated by tomorrow. Please post any questions/clarification that you may have on the forum.

Wish you all the best!

Sushmita

Welcome to COMP3453/COMP6453!

Posted by Sushmita Ruj Saturday 14 February 2026, 09:35:18 AM.

Dear All,

Welcome to the course on Applied Cryptography. I will be lecturing this course this term. We have an excellent teaching team with Nhi Nguyen (admin), Alex Vong, Cameron McGowan and Varpreet Dhaliwal. We are looking forward to help you learn and enjoy this course.

Lectures will be face-to-face in CivEng 101. My classes are interactive, please come to class to maximise your learning experience during the course. Due to the intensity and the interactive nature of the classes, I might not be able to take online questions. All Lectures will be recorded. All tutorials are in person.

Details about the course are in the Course Outline .

Tutorials will start in Week 2. (No tutorial in Week 1 ).

Pre-reading in Week 1: Chapter 2 from Handbook of Applied Cryptography (please check out the Tutorials tab).

To help us know you better, can you please complete this survey by Friday 20 February, 2026.

We will use Discourse for forums this year. https://discourse02.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T1/COMP3453

Best wishes and see you on Monday!

Sushmita Ruj

(Lecturer-in-Charge)

Course forum

Posted by Nhi Nguyen Tuesday 10 February 2026, 03:54:41 PM, last modified Tuesday 10 February 2026, 03:56:20 PM.

Hi all,

Welcome to COMP3453/COMP6453. We will be using Discourse as our course forum. Please use the following link to access it:

https://discourse02.cse.unsw.edu.au/26T1/COMP3453

Thank you!

Nhi