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Re: Recommended coursework for budding cryptologist?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Reuter)
Wed Dec 10 22:58:37 1997
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:30:40 -0800
From: Joe Reuter <reuter@alaska.dh.trw.com>
To: johnbr@undefined.com
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19971210001315.0073f604@pop.mindspring.com> (message
from John Brothers on Tue, 09 Dec 1997 19:13:15 -0500)
Reply-To: Joseph.Reuter@trw.com
She needs Number Theory, not Numerical Analysis. The latter deals with
numerical solution of integration problems, differential equations, etc.
The former deals with the integers, modular arithmetic, etc. She should
also study Algebra, especially Permutations and Galois theory. Except
possibly for elliptic equations, I don't know of a branch of Analysis
that is applicable to cryptography. On the other hand, I wouldn't
want to rule it out, either.
--
Joseph A. Reuter, Wizard-in-Training, speaking for myself alone
reuter@alaska.dh.trw.com or Joseph.Reuter@trw.com
"Olorin I was in my youth in the West that is forgotten."--J. R. R. Tolkien
