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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by MrXOR on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:31PM (#19783998)
Hi @TacticalCoder, One question!?

From Rivest-Shamir-Wagner's paper[1]:

“Solving the puzzle should be like having a baby: two women can’t have a baby in 4.5 months."

[1] https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/pubs/RSW96.pdf

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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by TacticalCoder on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:32PM (#19784008)
Hi MrXOR,

first thanks a lot for posting this to HN!

Then: is there a question somewhere in your post which I missed? : )

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Re:Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule ... by MrXOR on Monday April 29, 2019 @08:40PM (#19784053)
Congratulations!
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