Difficult:
I don't understand the need for the irreducible polynomials. I know what they are but I don't know why we use them, or what makes them important. It seems that just changing the mod changes which polynomials are irreducible and which ones are not.
Reflective:
It is interesting seeing where some of the math that we learned is actually useful. In some of the math classes I've taken it always seems that the math isn't used by anyone other than math professors. It's good knowing that the math we are learning is directly applicably to the specific field of cryptography.
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