Kurdistan Algebra Project 2026
Part IV
Erbil April 5-16, 2026
Laura Geatti e Lea Terracini
ATTENTION: live discussion session Page under construction: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~geatti/KAP2026/AlgebraIV.html
Appointment Sunday April 12, at 10:30-11:30 (Erbil time).
Please connect to the link
https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m18e1625a35f2d38a3221d22d2895bb56
Program: Review of the ring Z/nZ and its properties. Primality of Large Numbers. Large number factorization.
Cryptography. The RSA Cryptosystem. Digital Signatures. Safety of RSA. Discrete Logarithms. Diffie-Hellman protocol.
Prerequisites: The Algebra course, parts I, II, III. A good working knowledge of modular arithmetic is especially desirable (see Exercises 1 below).
References:
Contacts: Our email adderesses are
geatti@mat.uniroma2.it lea.terracini@unito.it
Exercises