You may never have heard of modular arithmetic, but you use it every day without the slightest difficulty. In this system, numbers wrap around when they reach a certain size called the modulus; it ...

The Extended Euclidean algorithm calculates an associated factor at each step. It is the final value of this factor, the modular multiplicative inverse, that is the private key—29 in this case.

Description including Unit Aims The unit provides an introduction to logical propositions, basic set theory and cardinality, functions and relations, and proof techniques. These notions are ...