What was the most difficult part of the material for you?
I thought the entire section was kind of difficult to follow, but especially the timing attacks. I don't see how knowing the total time it takes to decrypt a message would let Eve know whether a bit in the binary representation of d was 0 or 1. And sometimes my computer at least will decide to be really slow for a little while, so it seems like that would invalidate that sort of attack.
What was the most interesting part of the material? How does this material connect to something else you have learned in mathematics? How is this material useful/relevant to your intellectual or career interests?
I think it's interesting to see that there are attacks on all of these encryption systems that people use. It makes me wonder if, in practice, there are a lot of encrypted transmissions that could be broken but most of the time, no one bothers.
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