Homework - MATH 496/616 Cryptography

Spring 2019



Please write legibly and staple the pages in your homework assignment together. If you choose to collaborate on a certain assignment with a classmate, make sure that you (a) write a short note indicating this fact at the top of the first page and (b) write up the solutions in your own words.

Exercises with asterisks following them are extra-credit problems that are mandatory for students enrolled in the graduate-level course MATH-616 and will count as optional extra-credit work for students enrolled in MATH-496. A subset of the problems from each assignment will be graded.

Assignment Problems Due Date
1

Chapter 1 #2, 4(a,c), 5*, 6, 9(c,d), 10(c,d), 11*, 12, 15, 17 Jan 29 (Tuesday)
2

Chapter 1 #22, 25, 26, 32, 33, 34(c), 36*, 38*, 39 (1—2 pages), 45 Feb 8 (Friday)
3

Chapter 1 #48, 50
Chapter 2 #1, 3(a), 6, 8, 9, 10*
Feb 15 (Friday)
4

Chapter 2 #11, 12, 15*, 17
Chapter 3 #1(a,c,e), 3, 6
Mar 1 (Friday)
5

Chapter 3 #7, 10, 11, 12(b), 14*, 15, 16, 19* Mar 8 (Friday)
6

Chapter 3 #21, 22, 25, 37, 39, 40*, 41 Mar 25 (Monday)
7

Chapter 3 #42, 43*
Chapter 4 #1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8*, 9
Chapter 5 #2, 4
Apr 5 (Friday)
8

Chapter 5 #21, 37, 39, 40, 42
Chapter 6 #1, 4, 5(b,d,e), 7*
Apr 19 (Friday)
9

Chapter 6 #8, 11(d), 12(d), 14, 16, 17, 18*
Apr 26 (Friday)