Monday, November 9, 2009

Sec. 9.1-9.4, Due Nov 9th

1. I felt pretty good about these sections, but if I had to choose something that was a little confusing to me, I would probably choose the section on ElGamal signature scheme. The process was a little confusing and I wasn't sure where they got some of the stuff.
2. These sections were are very interesting to read about and I really liked them! It was fun reading about digital signatures and all the different ways to keep them safe using RSA, ElGamal, Hash functions and Birthday Attacks. It made me think about all the things that I sign, and wonder if everything is safe. But like you said in class last time, if we're paranoid, we can always do what Alice did during the birthday attack section and put in a comma or something so that we completely changes the hash. So yeah, I really liked reading these section, they were a lot of fun!

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