Saturday, December 1, 2012

16.5, due Wed Dec 5th

1. The interesting part of this was the relation to Signatures (El Gamal) but more especially, how easy and convenient the diffie hellman key exchange becomes.

2. The hard part was understanding El Gamal Digital Signatures for elliptic curves.

16.4, due Monday Dec 3rd

1. The hard part about this was following the example all the way through. It just took a little extra time to figure out what was going on.

2. The interesting part was how secure systems can be mod 2 or mod 2^n. I thought this would either decrease the security of the system, or make it difficult to represent points, but both challenges are overcome.