Web Links for Chapter 5

Page 234, Representations of  Integers

Information on decimal, octal, and hexadecimal numbers systems is available at the site http://kb.iu.edu/data/agxz.html.

Page 248, Euclidean Algorithm

Help is available at the University of Tennessee-Martin site http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/glossary/EuclideanAlgorithm.html. An interactive version of the Euclidean algorithm is available at http://www.math.umn.edu/~garrett/js/gcd.html. A biography of Euclid is at http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Euclid.html.

Page 260, RSA Public-Key Cryptosystem

A good explanation of public-key cryptology can be found at http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2165.