AATA Reading Questions

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Reading Questions 7.3 Reading Questions

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Use the euler_phi()function in Sage to compute $\phi(893\,456\,123)\text{.}$

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Use the power_mod()function in Sage to compute $7^{324}\pmod{895}\text{.}$

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Explain the mathematical basis for saying: encrypting a message using an RSA public key is very simple computationally, while decrypting a communication without the private key is very hard computationally.

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Explain how in RSA message encoding differs from message verification.

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Explain how one could be justified in saying that Diffie and Hellman's proposal in 1976 was “revolutionary.”

Abstract Algebra: Theory and Applications

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