Tuesday, October 9, 2012

6.2, due on October 10

What was the most difficult part of the material for you?

The section on "Low Exponent Attacks" had a lot of details. Keeping track of what everything means and how it all fits together was difficult.

What was the most interesting part of the material? 

I thought the hardware timing attack was very interesting. It shows that math and computer application are not quite the same. You can have a perfect algorithm, but somewhere in the implementation there could be a flaw that dissolves the security.

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