Thread: Encrypted Game Manual - Could we crack it?
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Re: Encrypted Game Manual - Could we crack it?
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Originally Posted by alextac98 View Post
If cracking the manual is so wrong, then why are they giving us the exact type of encryption? In my opinion, game developers want us to expand our skill set. After all, that's what FIRST is all about, right?
Perhaps so participants in other countries know they have the right tools to unencrypt the file. This is also likely the reason that FIRST isn't using a stronger form of encryption in the first place. Not as an invention to crack it.
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