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| Time: |
Mo 9:30-10:30, Wed 8:30-9:30, Thurs 10:30-11:30 |
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Room 110, Jeffrey Hall |
| Instructor: | Dr. Ernst Kani Room 211, Jeffrey Hall Telephone: 533-2435 Email: kani@mast.queensu.ca |
| Office hours: | Mo 13:30 - 14:30 Wed 12:30 - 13:30 and after class. |
| Marking scheme: | Final Mark = Max(65% Assignments + 35% exam, 35% Assignments + 65% exam), where exam = 45% project + 55% take-home |
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| Assignments: | Due Thursdays at 10:30 |
| Textbook: | N. Koblitz, A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography
(Second Edition). Springer Verlag, New York, 1994. |
| PC software: | MAPLE installed on PC's in Rm 155/157, Jeffrey Hall |
| Chapter 1: | Time estimates for doing arithmetic
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| Chapter 2: | Finite fields and quadratic residues
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| Chapter 3: | Public Key Cryptography
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| Chapter 4: | Primality and Factoring
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| Chapter 5: | Elliptic Curve Cryptography
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