2011 Encrypted manuals are out.

[BrendanB]

I highly doubt it will happen as it is a mixture of words, caps, punctuation, etc. based on the ones they have given out in the past few years. My regard for that team/member would go down the tubes extremely fast and it is never worth it, especially this early in the season.

[CrazyCarl461]

Originally Posted by Joe Schornak

Does anyone else find it significant that the decryption test file features our favorite picture of our favorite singer? Perhaps FIRST is trying to tell us something more about that hint...

Or perhaps they're just messing with our minds.

It is fairly common for a game hint to appear in the decryption test. As for messing with our minds.. I've always thought that's been the whole point of the hints

[Mark Holschuh]

My memory from past seasons was that we could download the encrypted file of the Competition Handbook prior to the Kickoff, and then open it with the password. This was done to avoid 1500+ teams from trying to download the file at the same time, and locking up the server.

When I click on the link to the file, I just get a request for the password, and am not able to download the file. Are others able to download the file?

[Chris is me]

You have to right click it and "save link as" to download.

[Mark Holschuh]

That worked. Thanks!

[Grim Tuesday]

If anyone was lucky enough, or had enough computing power to crack it, I hope that they would have the maturity not to read it.

The code is essentially 3.8*10^38 permutations, and the fastest single computer can perform 10^15 floating point operations per second (FLOPS). By comparison, a Core i7 is about 12 gigaflops.

Correct me if im wrong, but I believe that the math is [(3.8*10^38)/(10^15)]

Which ends up with 3.8 × 10^23 seconds. 1.2049721 × 10^16 years. Thats quite a long time. Unless, of course, someone gets lucky.

I feel like I did the math wrong, though. Someone kindly correct me.

[Christopher149]

You actually did do the math correctly, as long as each permutation requires one floating-point operation.

[Trent B]

This discussion came around one and a half years ago. For those of you not around.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=78124