Reading 3.4-3.5

Ill admit, i was a little bit sad that the Chinese Remainder theorem has reared its ugly head yet again.  I remember going over it in Theory of Analysis and not liking it at all, here it actually didnt seem quite as bad as I remembered.  Still some of the way that it goes about using it is kind of confusing to me.

The modular power arithmetic seemed to not be too challenging, but it does make me think that soon we will be getting into scarier forms of cryptography that have to do with large prime numbers....