ACCESS - Cryptography 2014

June 23-27, 8:30am-12pm (AM Session)

• Instructor: Fernando Guevara Vasquez (fguevara AT math DOT utah DOT edu), LCB 212, 801-581-7467.
  
• ACCESS TA: Sara Fauver (sjfauver AT gmail DOT com)
• Math TA: Becky Terry (terry AT math DOT utah DOT edu)
  
• Where: Please refer to the campus map for the location of buildings. Both JTB (John Talmage Building) and LCB (LeRoy Cowles Building) are on the President's Circle. MAC 1745 is a computer lab in the Marriott Library.

• The (rough) plan for the week is here: weekplan.pdf
• The notes on cryptography are here (this includes the notes that were distributed Monday) lecturenotes.pdf
• Tuesday: instructions are here.
• Wednesday: The RSA public key exchange is explained nicely in the notes by Tom Davis.
• Thursday: primes.py and the keys and messages from Thursday. The instructions for Thu are here: RSAinstructions.pdf.
• Friday:
  • You will need your private key p,q,N,N2,e,d from last time and the files: primes.py, pubkeys.py, coins.py, coins_client.py.
  • These Python files are documented here.
  • The instructions for Fri are here: Coininstructions.pdf and lecture notes: Coinnotes.pdf
  • The server is http://TBA.math.utah.edu:8080/ so to talk to the server you need to set:

      coins_client.base_url = "http://TBA.math.utah.edu:8080/"
      

• Here is the final blockchain and the tally:

  Public Key	Amount
  Group 3: Elizabeth, Cailey, Gina	312 Coins
  Group 1: Nikol, Kendall, Megan	275 Coins
  Group 4: Hailey, Bethany, LeAnn	202 Coins
  Group 7: Kaitlyn, Lizzy, Rachel	173 Coins
  Group 6: Emma, Rachel, Alexis	172 Coins
  Group 2: Taylor, Marisa, Gabbie	61 Coins
  Fernando	47 Coins
  Group 5: Amy, Tylar, Alisa	8 Coins

This class is based on previous ACCESS classes by Nick Korevaar