ACCESS 2015 - Cryptography

Instructor: Braxton Osting (osting AT math DOT utah DOT edu), LCB 116
ACCESS TA: Sophia Mahoney (dimas11 AT hotmail DOT com)
Math TA: Becky Terry (terry AT math DOT utah DOT edu)

When: July 6 -10, 8:30am-12pm
Where: JTB 120 and MAC 1120. Please refer to the campus map for the location of buildings. Both JTB (John Talmage Building) and LCB (LeRoy Cowles Building) are on President's Circle. MAC 1120 is a computer lab in the Marriott Library.


Course Information:

• The plan for the week is here: weekplan.pdf
• The notes on cryptography are here: lecturenotes.pdf (These notes distributed on Monday)
• Tuesday: Instructions are here.
• Wednesday: The RSA public key exchange is explained nicely in the notes by Tom Davis.
• Thursday: Implement RSA cryptography
  • Instructions are here: RSAinstructions.pdf.
  • You'll need the python module: primes.py.
  • Post your private/public keys here. Posted keys, see also pubkeys.py.
  • Here is a webpage for exchanging messages. Here are the final messages.
  • Here are scripts for encrypting/decrypting all of the messages.
• Friday: Implement ACCESS coins - a simplified version of bitcoin.
  • Instructions: Coininstructions.pdf and lecture notes: Coinnotes.pdf
  • You will need your private key p,q,N,N2,e,d from Thursday and the files:
    primes.py, pubkeys.py, coins.py, coins_client.py.
  • These Python modules are documented here.
  • The block chain and tally are available here. Here are the final block chain and tally.

This class is based on previous ACCESS classes by Nick Korevaar, Fernando Guevara Vasquez, and Christel Hohenegger.