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A course in number theory and cryptography / Neal Koblitz.

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  • ISBN: 0387942939
  • Physical Description: x, 235 p. : il. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 2nd ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Springer-Verlag, c1994.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Incluye bibliografía e índice.
Language Note:
English
Subject: Cryptografía.
Teoría de los números.

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Biblioteca Ipicyt QA241 K6.C6 1994 APL00020 Coleccion General Available -

Foreword. v
Preface to the Second Edition. vii
Chapter I. Some Topics in Elementary Number Theory. 1
1. Time estimates for doing arithmetic. 1
2. Divisibility and the Euclidean algorithm. 12
3. Congruences. 19
4. Some applications to factoring. 27
Chapter II. Finite Fields and Quadratic Residues. 31
1. Finite fields. 33
2. Quadratic residues and reciprocity. 42
Chapter III. Cryptography. 54
1. Some simple cryptosystems. 54
2. Enciphering matrices. 65
Chapter IV. Public Key. 83
1. The idea of public key cryptography. 83
2. RSA. 92
3. Discrete log. 97
4. Knapsack. 111
5. Zero-knowledge protocols and oblivious transfer. 117
Chapter V. Primality and Factoring. 125
1. Pseudoprimes. 126
2. The rho method. 138
3. Fermat factorization and factor bases. 143
4. The continued fraction method. 154
5. The quadratic sieve method. 160
Chapter VI. Elliptic Curves. 167
1. Basic facts. 167
2. Elliptic curve cryptosystems. 177
3. Elliptic curve primality test. 187
4. Elliptic curve factorization. 191
Answers to Exercises. 200
Index. 231

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