Hmm... I just realized that this question, with its "distributed/elastic pool of stateless web services", sounds an awful lot like "how do I control a botnet?" :p
We probably shouldn't be providing any cut-and-pasteable answers to this question until this contest has ended (which, apparently, means not until Monday). — Ilmari Karonen24 mins ago
@IlmariKaronen, poncho has already answered (correctly), should we do anything about the answer / question?
The only thing I could imagine to hide this from the world would be to mod-delete the question (and answer) and undelete again after the competition has ended. I'm not sure though if this is in-line with SE guidelines.
@IlmariKaronen sounds good. You may mention that we could temporarily delete the question if requested by them, if our mod-team (@e-sushi, @CodesInChaos, @mikeazo) agrees.
@CodesInChaos I think that's kind of site-specific. Math.SE has a contest policy, I believe.
Anyway, here's the organizers' response, summarized:
> <@Shalom[p4]> well you could just as well get this directly from wikipedia :D > <@Shalom[p4]> posting this on stackexchange is overkill :D > <@Shalom[p4]> but thanks for the info, it seems people like to cheat ;]
What is our policy concerning contest questions on the Mathematics Stack Exchange?
Why do we have a policy?
What is a contest question?
How we deal with on-going contest questions?
I see a question that I know is from a contest, what do I do?
We had two recent questions on here seeking help with a contest/challenge. There have probably been others.
How to decrypt a '.enc' file that has been encrypted with RSA using a public key?
Decrypted RSA 64 bit encryption using modulus and private exponent. Got gobbledygook [Verify]
Are these...
Probably the most non-destructive way to handle things. Looking at a non-answer by OP I just had to delete (was that you flagging it?), OP isn’t able to transform the existing answer into a practical implementation anyway. 8}
@SEJPM Well, since you frequently show up watching my wing, pointing me to stuff et all… that’s why I said that if this continues, I’ll probably have to call you my “wingman” soon. (Hope that makes sense as context… long time, no coffee.)
We had two recent questions on here seeking help with a contest/challenge. There have probably been others.
How to decrypt a '.enc' file that has been encrypted with RSA using a public key?
Decrypted RSA 64 bit encryption using modulus and private exponent. Got gobbledygook [Verify]
Are these...
