i got a little lost in the description of the public key cryptosystem and how it works, but i’m sure i will be able to follow it when working with an actual example. i was also a little confused by the discrete logarithms, but i think i just remembered this late and was rushing. it’s usually a little rough when i try to learn things by reading in a textbook. i do much better if i can work through an example.
when i was reading through that challenge, it took me a second before i realized that we can actually figure that out (we can right?). it really amazes me how far we have come and how far technology has come. we have given ourselves the ability to do so many things because we have created computers that will do so much more than we could ever imagine. for example, we can continue to deal with those ridiculously large numbers and it’s not even a big deal. math is awesome.
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