Recommended text: A. McAndrew, Introduction to Cryptography with open-source software, CRC Press, 2011
2000 words will be due at the 12 week grade point. The project can be handed in as a pdf. Preferably done in LaTeX (see here and here). The presentation can be handed in as a pdf and prefereably created in Beamer (see here). (Beamer is pre-loaded on at least some of the machines in the Linux Lab - ask about getting an account).