Book coverage
As I said in class, the book is more written for mathematicians who
want big more general theorems, and the book throws in more
superstructure in places than is needed for the cryptography. In
class I have often chosen simpler routes to important results for
cryptography. Here specifically are book topics that you are not
responsible for:
Ch 1. Have the result, but no need to reproduce the proof that O(xgcd(a, b)) = O((bits in a)(bits in b))
Ch2 definition of monoids and semigroups, and for now, skip 2.14, 2.16,2.18-end.
... More in later chapters added later.