Thursday, February 1, 2007

Section 3.11

Wow this was some weird stuff. I had seen finite fields and their properties before in a linear algebra class but the field of integers mod n are strange. Especially the polynomials of degree 8 some of those properties were not very easy to understand. In particular the effects of division are kind of weird. However I do see how this allows a simplification for the calculations to make things like Rijndael fast.

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