Brimstone for cracking RSA. (jk)

[Till]

Originally Posted by Uncwilly

Thanks for catching that. I broke the link. If someone want to get it they can do so with full knowledge.

Actually, the Sourceforge project link does not seem to be the problem, it is rather the download link which appends "files/latest/download" to the project link.

But if I understand correctly, kruoli had no warnings opening the archive.


Btw, I do not really understand why the author creates a password-protected archive and then publishes the password on a public forum. Why not a plain open SourceForge project?

[kruoli]

I guess SF says it's malicious because it is password protected and cannot be checked against malware etc.
The password is not shown correctly on my end, but I still could copy and insert in into my archiver.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Till

Actually, the Sourceforge project link does not seem to be the problem, it is rather the download link which appends "files/latest/download" to the project link.

But if I understand correctly, kruoli had no warnings opening the archive.


Btw, I do not really understand why the author creates a password-protected archive and then publishes the password on a public forum. Why not a plain open SourceForge project?

As a bozo filter?

Anyone can download an unprotected project. A certain minimum level of cluefulness is needed for one which is password-protected.

[Till]

Originally Posted by xilman

As a bojo filter?

Great one

[Batalov]

I am always keen to learn some crowd psychology.
The question that I had is - why do folks get compelled to download a code that does something wrongly? We already know that it does its own job wrongly. What does it matter how it does it? One wants to marvel the coding style or the number of lines or something?
Very curious.
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The algorithm starts with N, P and Q, then...

Originally Posted by SarK0Y

At some point, it seemed utterly impossible. But here we go..

Actually, algo consists of three stages..

it picks initial (probable) Z’s (pZ_L and pZ_R) up (Z = P + Q, N = P*Q)

Full stop, don't need to read further.
The algorithm now computed P*Q and if it equals N: stop, all done.
Else: stop because there is no point in going further :-)

Arguing that it is better because "it doesn't use division and (untrue) doesn't use modular arithmetic" is false because it competes with the Algorithm 2: "Compute P*Q. If equal N, stop. Done" and loses.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Till

Great one :D :D

Clever mis-quoting.

By and large I disapprove of editing quotes but on this occasion I will make an exception.

[Till]

Originally Posted by xilman

Clever mis-quoting.

By and large I disapprove of editing quotes but on this occasion I will make an exception.

Thank you sir

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Till

Thank you sir

You're welcome.

As a nit-pick (I spend a significant amount of my time picking nits) I will point out that BoJo is conventionally BiCapitalized,

[Till]

Originally Posted by xilman

You're welcome.

As a nit-pick (I spend a significant amount of my time picking nits) I will point out that BoJo is conventionally BiCapitalized,

Is this a riddle that someone could crack who does not know british language or culture to a really large extend? I am quite clueless about it, but I think that those two capitalized letters are a distraction.

[xilman]

Originally Posted by Till

Is this a riddle that someone could crack who does not know british language or culture to a really large extend? I am quite clueless about it, but I think that those two capitalized letters are a distraction.

"BoJo"is a common contraction of "Boris Johnson".

"Bozo" is the name of a historically famous circus clown.

I used "bozo" whereas you mis-quoted it as "bojo".

[Till]

Originally Posted by xilman

"BoJo"is a common contraction of "Boris Johnson".

"Bozo" is the name of a historically famous circus clown.

I used "bozo" whereas you mis-quoted it as "bojo".

I understood that much... Good night