1. Cryptography
Sage Interlude 1

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

3. 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