Questions copied and pasted, I will fill in responses:
- Which topics and ideas do you think are the most important out of those we have studied?
- I really liked starting with some simple historical ciphers. Although they may not be safe to use for very important things any more, it still provides a good perspective for cryptography.
- What kinds of questions do you expect to see on the exam?
- Now that we have the study sheet, I imagine that we'll see the types of questions that are given as examples on there. Missing from these examples are proof-like questions. I reckon there may be one or two of those on the exam as well? I imagine there won't be any numerically complex or extremely long calculations, given the testing center calculators and time constraints.
- What do you need to work on understanding better before the exam?
- I don't know much about the attacks on Vigenère ciphers. The online tool was easy enough to use, but I haven't tried the math behind it. Also, I am not clear about everything that divisibility implies with modular arithmetic, and how all that fits together. Some other things are probably a little fuzzy, but I hope that if they come up and we've done them before that I can remember. I'll probably better know the answer to this question after the exam :-)
- I don't know much about the attacks on Vigenère ciphers. The online tool was easy enough to use, but I haven't tried the math behind it. Also, I am not clear about everything that divisibility implies with modular arithmetic, and how all that fits together. Some other things are probably a little fuzzy, but I hope that if they come up and we've done them before that I can remember. I'll probably better know the answer to this question after the exam :-)
No comments:
Post a Comment