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Computer Security and Cryptography
Reading Group
November 2003 List

Date &
Location
Reading
19 Nov. 2003
5331 CS
2:30 - 3:30 PM

Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
University of Waterloo, Canada

Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Sections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5 from Chapter 3.

URL: http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

  • 3.2 The integer factorization problem
  • 3.3 The RSA problem
  • 3.4 The quadratic residuosity problem
  • 3.5 Computing square roots in Zn
26 Nov. 2003
5331 CS
2:30 - 3:30 PM

Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot, Scott A. Vanstone
University of Waterloo, Canada

Handbook of Applied Cryptography
Sections 3.6, 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, 3.11 from Chapter 3.

URL: http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/

  • 3.6 The discrete logarithm problem
  • 3.7 The Diffie-Hellman problem
  • 3.8 Composite moduli
  • 3.9 Computing individual bits
  • 3.10 The subset sum problem
  • 3.11 Factoring polynomials over finite fields

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