Test Review

• I think the most important thing we have studied is the RSA because we've spent the most time on it by far. Digital signatures also seem important but not nearly as much as RSA.
• I expect there to be questions asking to prove why m^(e*d) is congruent to m. I also expect to see questions asking how to decrypt messages that have been encrypted wrongly.
• I feel like I need to remember the special tricks to factoring n, like the p-1 method and the Quadratic Sieve and the primality Test. I also feel like I need to understand the Discrete Logs and the Hash functions better.
• So far, I've really enjoyed learning about RSA and digital signatures. I don't know what else there is to learn in those subjects but they've been the most interesting to me thus far.