Network Security: Private Communications in a Public World, 3rd Edition

Math

This supplement was written solely by me₃ (Mike Speciner) with the intention of providing material to expand and deepen your knowledge of the mathematics and algorithms behind many of the techniques explained in the book. You should be able to understand the rest of the book without this knowledge, but I₃ think it could still be helpful, or at least enlightening. This supplement, including the homework problems: https://github.com/ms0/docs/blob/main/math.pdf.

M.1 Introduction

Computing technology has encouraged us to turn pretty much everything into bits. We use bits to represent numbers, text, images, audio, video, objects, scents, and even more abstract concepts like spacetime, quantum fields, and money. For a few of these, the representation ...