5Essential Algebra

In this chapter we will cover the following:

image   Groups, rings, and fields

image   Diophantine equations

image   Basic matrix algebra

image   Algorithms

image   The history of algebra

Certain aspects of algebra are very important to the cryptographic algorithms ...

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