Real Simple Access

tails · Post by **tails** » Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:11 pm

The message is a plain text, not a cipher.
I guess that's a mistake.

arthur · Post by **arthur** » Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:20 am

Yes, I think it's a mistake.
The message Charly intercepted should be 10121894195639241422027618825432423752630721992693703529919

Tron · Post by **Tron** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 7:28 pm

I probably wasted an hour looking for my calculation error in decrypting the message. o_O
Ok, back to hacking my Mortal Coil solver. (:

bsguedes · Post by **bsguedes** » Sat Sep 03, 2011 10:43 pm

That has to be a mistake, this challenge has difficulty 75 only to convert a given number to readable ASCII?

(Before doing the conversion I suspected the answer could be a sentence like that based on the challenge description

)

dangermouse · Post by **dangermouse** » Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:56 am

With MSieve (http://sourceforge.net/projects/msieve/) prime number factorization took only 11 minutes on my intel core duo

Amazing tools out there!

tompko · Post by **tompko** » Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:25 pm

http://factordb.com/ gives an even faster answer

Hippo · Post by **Hippo** » Sat May 03, 2014 5:18 pm

Hmm, seems it was originally much more simple

I had to factorize the 80 digit number.
It's helpfull when one knows there are downloadable number field sieve algorithms available

. Took me about 2 hours after reaching the challenge

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yes-man · Post by **yes-man** » Thu Nov 07, 2019 10:12 am

... this challenge sucked. I'm pretty disappointed by it.

I was hoping to learn something and not just to use (online) tools to factor a number. This is not a good challenge.

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