[Reader-list] Illegal Prime no.......

[Jaswinder Singh Kohli]

This may be the first known illegal prime. What folks often forget is a
program (any file actually) is a string of bits (binary digits)--so
every program is a number. Some of these are prime.
When written in base 16 (hexidecimal), this prime forms a gzip file of
the original C-source code (sans tables) that decrypts the DVD Movie
encryption scheme (DeCSS). See Gallery of CSS Descramblers (and its
Steganography Wing) for more information. It is apparantly illegal to
distribute this source code in the United States, so does that make this
number ( found by Phil Carmody) also illegal? [Caldwell]

4856507896573978293098418946942861377074420873513579240196520736
6869851340104723744696879743992611751097377770102744752804905883
1384037549709987909653955227011712157025974666993240226834596619
6060348517424977358468518855674570257125474999648219418465571008
4119086259716947970799152004866709975923596061320725973797993618
8606316914473588300245336972781813914797955513399949394882899846
9178361001825978901031601961835034344895687053845208538045842415
6548248893338047475871128339598968522325446084089711197712769412
0795862440547161321005006459820176961771809478113622002723448272
2493232595472346880029277764979061481298404283457201463489685471
6908235473783566197218622496943162271666393905543024156473292485
5248991225739466548627140482117138124388217717602984125524464744
5055834628144883356319027253195904392838737640739168912579240550
1562088978716337599910788708490815909754801928576845198859630532
3823490558092032999603234471140776019847163531161713078576084862
2363702835701049612595681846785965333100770179916146744725492728
3348691600064758591746278121269007351830924153010630289329566584
3662000800476778967984382090797619859493646309380586336721469695
9750279687712057249966669805614533820741203159337703099491527469
1835659376210222006812679827344576093802030447912277498091795593
8387121000588766689258448700470772552497060444652127130404321182
610103591186476662963858495087448497373476861420880529443

A Perl program for extracting the source code from this prime number was
written by Jamie McCarthy.
Link--->
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/Stego/mccarthy-prime-decoder.txt

Site http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/curios/48565...29443.html



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Regards
Jaswinder Singh Kohli
jskohli at fig.org
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