Exam 2 Questions, due on November 15

1. Which topics and ideas do you think are the most important out of those we have studied? 

• I think the most important topics we studied are the different types of cryptosystems gone over and all the different ways you can attack them. That is the reason we have gone over everything else.

2. What kinds of questions do you expect to see on the exam? 

• I expect to see different calculations that we can actually do by hand such as the topics with modular arithmetic, Jacobi symbols, and Shamir threshold scheme problems.

3. What do you need to work on understanding better before the exam?

• I need to understand all of the factoring methods better and how exactly to do those by hand without sage. I also need to go over discrete logs and the review says simple discrete logs but how simple. Can you just brute force them?