Summary for Week 5
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Lecture 11: We finished our disucssion on the RSA public-key
system. We also introduced the discrete log problem (DLP), which
is the basis for the Elgamal public-key system and Diffie-Hellman
key exchange protocol. We also discussed a fast algorithm for
exponentiation.
Date: Tu, 02/22/2005.
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Lecture 12: We covered the Elgamal public-key cryptosystem and
the Diffie-Hellman key exchange problem. We also covered a signature
scheme based on RSA.
Date: Th, 02/24/2005.