Will teaches very clearly and he gave us programming assignments from which we can actually experience the beauty of cryptography.

Tests:
1 Midterm, 1 Final.
The tests can be a little bit long, but they are easy if you understand the material.

Homework:
Homework can be a headache for someone who knows nothing about Math 110A, like me, but if you are willing to spend more time, you are totally fine.

Project:
Will asked us to dive into a cryptographic field that is not covered in class, and this project basically gave us a taste of researches.

However, this course should have Math 110A as a prerequisite since we spent so much time on number theory and finite fields. We could totally spend such time on actual cryptographic applications, like elliptic curves, pseudorandom generators, etc.. I hope the department can change the prereq and make this course better.