Textbook

• Codes and Cryptography, Dominic Welsh

Assignments

• July 8: You should have finished or soon finish the first 6 chapters of Welsh. Let's begin organizing to hand in solved problems from these chapters. On the courses web site, we should organize who has done what problems and we should combine them into a single, class, write-up. Thanks.
• Exercises from ch. 7 and 8 this week (july 14-18)
• Exercises from ch. 9 and 10 next week (july 21-25)
• Exercises from ch. 11 and 12 the final week (july 28-31)
• Extra: Find 12 by 12 hadamard matrices and prove them equivalent or not.

Other readings

• Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, Wade Trappe, Lawrence Washington.
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Menezes, van Oorschot, Vanstone, CRC Press 1996.
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