8.3,9.5, due on November 11

• Holy cow! There are so many new symbols to know! We've been introduced to one or two of them before, but now there are so many things to remember about hash functions. They're still pretty fuzzy for me anyway. Some good study time should clear it up. And, I'll just have to read and reread my notes from lecture so that I can catch up on all of the symbols and what they mean.
• The Digital Signature Algorithm really does remind me a lot of the ElGamal method. The way the two are laid out in the book makes them out to be extremely similar. Having completed the homework for this week already, and computing some problems with ElGamal, I feel good about algorithms such as these.