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Re: How do I get the encrypted competition manual?

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
Anybody have access to a super computer? My quad core laptop will take more than a year to brute force the PDF open. Haha
26 lowercase + 26 uppercase + 10 digits + about 20 common symbols = a set of 82 characters from which to choose. Assume that the password is between 10 and 20 characters long. That makes 8210 + 8211 + ... + 8220 = 1.9 × 1038 unique passwords to check to be sure of success.

How many cores did you say you have?

(There's no practical brute force attack on the encrypted manual. It would be much easier to hijack a helicopter, land on top of FIRST HQ, cut a hole in the ceiling, steal all of their computers, and decrypt those.)
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