CMSC 198: Computer Science: A Hands off Approach

Summer 2016 HOMEPAGE

Syllabus

HOMEWORKS

hw01.PDF

hw02.PDF

hw03.PDF

hw04.PDF,

hw05.PDF,

SAMPLE MIDTERM,

hw06.PDF,

hw07.PDF,

hw08.PDF,

hw09.PDF,

hw10.PDF.

hw11.PDF.

hw12.PDF.

HANDOUTS

1. CIPHERS.PDF. Has Shift, Affine, Quadratic, Polynomial, Vigenere, Matrix, 1-time pad, and Diffie-Helman.
2. The Moral Character of Cryptographic Research.
3. FINDPRIMES.PDF, How to find a prime between $n$ and $2n$.
4. INVERSES.PDF, How to take the inverse of a number mod a prime.
5. RSA.PDF, RSA. Duh.
6. POLLARD.PDF, Pollards algorithm for factoring.
7. CARDS.PDF, Secret Sharing with Cards.
8. SECSHARE.PDF Secret Sharing.

An interesting Sub Cipher

Solving Discrete Log Fast in Practice