Cryptography has become indispensable in areas such as e-commerce, the legal safeguarding of medical records, and secure electronic communication. Hence, it is incumbent upon software engineers to understand the concepts and techniques underlying the cryptosystems that they implement. An educator needs to consider which topics to cover in a course on cryptography as well as how to present the concepts and techniques to be covered in the course. This thesis contributes to the field of cryptography pedagogy by discussing and implementing small-scale cryptosystems whose encryption and decryption processes can be stepped through by hand. Our implementation has been accepted and integrated into the code base of the computer algebra system Sage. As Sage is free and open source, students and educators of cryptology need not worry about paying license fees in order to use Sage, but can instead concentrate on exploring cryptography using Sage’s built-in support for cryptography.

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Sage (version 3.4); The Princeton Companion To Mathematics

Exploring Cryptography Using the Sage Computer Algebra System

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Sage (version 3.4); The Princeton Companion To Mathematics

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Exploring Cryptography Using the Sage Computer Algebra System

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