Prelab 11: Encryption

Reading

1. Brookshear, 11.5 & 11.6
2. Lecture slides on information security

Exercises

1. Complete in-class questions on security
2. What are 2 advantages of public-key cryptography over private-key?

3. What does it mean when one says that factoring is hard? How does that affect RSA encryption?

4. What are the effects of large and smaller values of n in RSA?

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