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Sending Nikita an Encrypted Message

Encode your message as a sequence of numbers modulo $ n$ (see Section 2):

$\displaystyle m_1, \ldots, m_r \in \mathbb{Z}/n\mathbb{Z}. $

Send

$\displaystyle E(m_1), \ldots, E(m_r) $

to Nikita. (Recall that $ E(m) = m^e$.)


William A Stein 2001-10-01