Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010)
by soccersups on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:10PM
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Yeah, I used the old math concept too for the first part, but got the values for a,b,c by hand. Remembering that math trick definitely made it easier. Fun to do a little math again.
Just wrote the code for cipher and used all possible characters and replaced using the encrypted value. Though I nearly sent it to the wrong address since it wasn't clear whether address contained the answer it self or answer%256. took ~30 mins [mostly to look up ord,chr and the solution on google].
final solution 12 lines python code, does not calculates a,b,c just the cipher and i/o.