Sunday, February 19, 2006

What Time Is It? Answers (2/19)

1) 1137 (11:37 am)
2) 1941 (7:41 pm)
3) 1753 (5:53 pm)
4) 1347 (1:47 pm)
5) 2359 (11:59 pm)

I picked prime numbers to multiply because they are a total pain to find. Multiplying two prime numbers is part of a one-way function, a system currently used by the government and various other institutions to encrypt messages. PGP is a public form of the same encryption.

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