Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo in 'just over an hour'

Re:Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo ... by isitmadeofglass on Saturday September 03, 2022 @03:03AM (#32699475)

What? Its not some impossible hard code, its just a fin little exercise to get attention. It wasn’t intended to be unbreakable or take more than an hour to figure out by people interested in cryptography, the news is just that a particular 14y old was enthusiastic and also ready at the mark to speed run it.

Your attitude is equivalent to complaining about a newspaper sudoku being solved by someone early in the day, because “now no one wants to solve it and the paper wasted all that money making it”.

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Re:Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo ... by ncmncm on Saturday September 03, 2022 @04:42AM (#32699969)

You really cannot perceive the difference between a few square inches on a newspaper page and a custom-minted coin?

They clearly hoped it would take at least weeks for a full solution, so they could have multiple press events. Or if not, they should have; incompetent either way.

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Re:Australian Signals Directorate coin code cracked by 14yo ... by theteapot on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:04AM (#32710293)

Have you actually tried it? If ASD thinks this would take a week to crack Australia as a nation is in trouble.

Custom minted coins is not that uncommon in Australia. There's been over 100 of them.

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