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| | Announcement |
 | | Topics include private-key cryptosystems (such as classical ciphers, the Hill cipher, and DES), computational complexity and relevant number theoretic problems (such as primality testing, factoring, and the discrete logarithm problem), public-key cryptosystems (such as RSA, Rabin, and ElGamal), digital signatures, and authentication protocols. |
 | | To fully appreciate and understand the mechanics and theoretical reliability of the RSA cryptosystem requires that we also study the topics of primality testing and factoring, which is where we get into some advanced number theory (particularly when discussing primality testing, where we look at quadratic residues, Legendre symbols, and Jacobi symbols). |
 | | The Rabin cryptosystem is introduced as a cipher whose security is provably equal to the difficulty of factoring. |
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