Cryptography Sage Interlude 1

Sage Much like Python Contains number-theoretic routines (and much more) Basic Introduction in McAndrew, pp. 395 ff. Sage Tutorial

Getting Started All files are to be named <fn>.sage for example: asgn1.sage Sage is installed on the virtual machine To bring up sage: sage To quit sage: quit() To load a program: load(“<fn>.sage”) Example: load(“ex1.sage”) To run a program: program is without functions: load(“<fn>.sage”) executes program contains functions: type name of the function from the sage prompt