Exam Review, due on November 13

• Which topics and ideas do you think are the most important out of those we have studied?
• I think the most important topics are the different cryptosystems that we learned about and specific attacks on those systems. Most of the other stuff that we learned seemed to lead up to them.
• What kinds of questions do you expect to see on the exam?
• It's hard for me to know what to expect, because I feel like we used computers an awful lot in this unit. Even the concepts behind them seem to require bigger numbers, which we aren't really able to work with without a strong computer.
• What do you need to work on understanding better before the exam?
• I need to work on understanding Fermat's Little Theorem and Euler's theorem and how to apply them.
• I need to review all the different primality tests as well as attacks on the different cryptosystems.