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The discussion centers around RSA encryption and the challenges of decrypting it. Participants express skepticism about the feasibility of manual decryption, suggesting that powerful computers or networks of PCs would be necessary for effective factoring. There's a humorous tone regarding the complexity of the task, with mentions of needing extensive computational resources, possibly even a global network of PCs. The conversation also touches on curiosity about how others have successfully decrypted RSA and hints at the potential future impact of quantum computing on encryption methods.
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Anyone really good with RSA encryption/decryption? If you are, try http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2093" . Just remember to split half the money with me if you win.:biggrin:
 
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I think the best bet would be to write some code to factor it, doing it by hand would take a rather long time :biggrin:

I don't think being good with encryption would help either, I think that we would need some rather powerful PC's, or grids of PC's to do it.
 
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I think the best bet would be to write some code to factor it, doing it by hand would take a rather long time :biggrin:

I don't think being good with encryption would help either, I think that we would need some rather powerful PC's, or grids of PC's to do it.

Probably more than that.

Like connect all the PC's together in the world or something.
 
:biggrin:. I wonder how the other people won. How does one decrypt RSA anyway?
 
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:biggrin:. I wonder how the other people won. How does one decrypt RSA anyway?
trial and error
 
Just wait till I get my quantum compy.
 

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