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From: Introduction to Cryptography Course Team <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 8:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Online Cryptography class: week 5 Dear Jeffrey epstein, The week 5 lectures and problem set are now posted on the course web site at https://crypto.stanford.edu/OnlineCrypto The problem set is due in three weeks. As usual, there is also an extra credit programming project. This week's topic is basic key exchange: how to setup a secret key between two parties. For now we only consider protocols secure against eavesdropping. This question motivates the main concepts of public key cryptography, but before we build public key systems we need to take a brief detour and cover a few basic concepts from computational number theory. We will start with algorithms dating back to antiquity (Euclid) and work our way up to Fermat, Euler, and Legendre. We will also mention in passing a few useful concepts from 20th century math. For those seeing this material for the first time I recommend also taking a look at the first four chapters of this book: http://shoup.net/ntb/ntb-v2.pdf Next week we will put our hard work from this week to good use and construct several public key encryption systems. As always, please keep discussing the material on the course forums. The discussions so far have been very good and your posts help improve the course. Enjoy, Dan Introduction to Cryptography Course Team You are receiving this email because [email protected] is enrolled in Introduction to Cryptography <https://class.coursera.org/crypto-005/class/index> . To stop receiving similar future emails from this class, please click here <https://class.coursera.org/crypto- 005/auth/stop_emails?data=vqd5mIF9O4hqDpOsgFqlT%26vMtGh6GsrfZjfuVF97b8qRpilzgrUpOOVfgPLvLs6M%2Fhrls1 UZqtCTaTI0y%2FumKw%3D%3D%7CMialw8maG89RPFObNVK2RCU%2BYx%28Q9lit6yfzFNZHqlh2Ety2%2FexQZeIr0xQilz qvAsEWi%2BaEOA2YOYDWAOxoCHWAV7wUsHNXInbcP0ReS2RUo2dHalMx9Ybxnlqf4Fy%2FVbPA9pvcElyA8g509hUblz pa6XjurKKdzR%2BFYZy8KQ02E1iWWa7l%2B%2BZ4wpgcdpeC> . Please do not reply directly to this email. If you have any questions or feedback, please post on the class discussion forums <https://class.coursera.org/crypto- 005/forum/index> . For general questions, please visit our support site <http://help.coursera.orgh . date-last-viewed 0.0 date-received 1360571144 flags 8623750145 original-mailbox imap://[email protected]/%5BGmail%5D/All%20Mail remote-id 275394 EFTA_R1_01421683 EFTA02393320