Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

Boston, Massachusetts, March 21-24, 2013

Paper S014

This is an electronic reprint, reproduced by permission of Pearson Education Inc. Originally appeared in the Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics, ISBN-10: 0133866726, Copyright (C) 2014 by Pearson Education, Inc.


Using Maplets in Teaching Cryptology

Rick Klima


Appalachian State University

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Neil Sigmon


Radford University

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ABSTRACT

Due to required intensive computations, the use of a technological resource is beneficial in courses involving cryptography. We discuss how Maplets, which are included with the new textbook Cryptology Classical and Modern with Maplets, allow students to easily execute encryption and decryption algorithms with little required programming knowledge.

Keyword(s): number theory, applications, Maple