Math 134, Cryptography, Spring 2005

• Classes: M,W,F 11-12:10, Social Sciences I, 161.
• Instructor: Robert Boltje;
  Office: Baskin Engineering 365 C;
  Tel.: 459-5001;
  Email: boltje@math.ucsc.edu;
  Office hours: M 3:30-5, Th 9-10:30, or by appointment.
• Teaching Assistant: Abe Berman
  Office: Baskin Engineering 354
  Email: aberman@math.ucsc.edu
  Office hours: W 12-2, Th 2-3, F 11-12.
• Sections: Alternatingly Tuesday and Wednesday 6-7:30, starting on Tuesday, April 5. JBEB Room 360 on Tuesdays, and Porter Room 246 on Wednesdays.
• Exams: Midterm: Wednesday, May 4, 11-12:10, SSI 161. Final: Wednesday, June 8, 8-11am.
• Passing requirements: 50% of maximal combined score from homework, midterm and final.
• Textbooks: Neal Koblitz: A course in number theory and cryptography, 2nd edition. Springer 1998.
• Homework: Some homework problems will consist of writing programs in a computer algebra language, as for example "Mathematica". There is a variety of computer labs on campus (see http://ic.ucsc.edu/labs/). All machines should have "Mathematica". But you are free to use any other software that allows basic algebraic manipulations.
• Homework Problems: Set 1, Set 2, Set 3, Text file for problem 15, Set 4, Set 5.