The basic idea of the workshop is to teach some of the
important number theory involved in public key crypto-
systems like RSA and the Diffie-Hellman key exchange to
an audience of pre-calculus and calculus students. We
have run this workshop several times before and have
accumulated quite a bit of material which you would be
free to use, or you could do something a little different.
There will be a workshop on Factoring and Primality Testing
the following Saturday, so another goal of this workshop
is to get students prepared for and interested in that.
This workshop is organized by Pat Deeren and Jennifer Smith, with
help from Aaron Ekstrom, Laura Kondek, and Judith Reed.
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