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Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by akshayubhat on Sunday September 05, 2010 @07:08AM (#1664342)
Solved it, knowing an old math concept helped, did a Google search and got the values [writing the code to loop through the values for m,n was easier but felt someone must have computed them and posted on web].

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.

Re:Ask HN: Who's hiring? (September 2010) by soccersups on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:10PM (#1664777)
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.