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Modern Cryptography, Samuel Lopez

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

We live in an age where we willingly provide our social security number, credit card information, home address and countless other sensitive information over the Internet. Whether you are buying a phone case from Amazon, sending in an on-line job application, or logging into your on-line bank account, you trust that the sensitive data you enter is secure. As our technology and computing power become more sophisticated, so do the tools used by potential hackers to our information. In this paper, the underlying mathematics within ciphers will be looked at to understand the security of modern ciphers.

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Simulating Spatial Partial Differential Equations With Cellular Automata, Brian Paul Strader

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to define the relationship and show how an important subset of spatial differential equations can be transformed into cellular automata. Contains source code.