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Welllllllllll as i am a senior in high school and taking calc classes, one who takes high up math tends to look at numbers in different ways. I was looking at the two numbers that have been given so far for KH358/2. This being 358/2 and 152. Now if u divide 358 by two u get 179. Now interestingly enough, 151 and 179 r both prime numbers(for those who do not know what a prime number is, it is basically a number that cannot be divided into numbers that do not have decimals, such as 7, 13, etc.).
After finding it vaguely interesting that both numbers are prime, i decided to look up what prime numbers are used for. Oddly enough, prime numbers are used frequently in cryptology. Now that may mean nothing to most people so here is a short blurb from wikipedia:
"a key had to be kept absolutely secret and would be agreed upon beforehand using a secure, but non-cryptographic, method; for example, a face-to-face meeting or a trusted courier. There are a number of significant practical difficulties in this approach to distributing keys. Public-key cryptography was invented to address these drawbacks — with public-key cryptography, users can communicate securely over an insecure channel without having to agree upon a shared key beforehand."
I just found this a little conincidental not to be touched upon.
Let me know wat u think.
After finding it vaguely interesting that both numbers are prime, i decided to look up what prime numbers are used for. Oddly enough, prime numbers are used frequently in cryptology. Now that may mean nothing to most people so here is a short blurb from wikipedia:
"a key had to be kept absolutely secret and would be agreed upon beforehand using a secure, but non-cryptographic, method; for example, a face-to-face meeting or a trusted courier. There are a number of significant practical difficulties in this approach to distributing keys. Public-key cryptography was invented to address these drawbacks — with public-key cryptography, users can communicate securely over an insecure channel without having to agree upon a shared key beforehand."
I just found this a little conincidental not to be touched upon.
Let me know wat u think.