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Q: Capture the flag questions

Maarten BodewesCurrently we seem to get quite a lot of capture-the-flag questions. The idea of these capture the flag challenges is not to ask for a solution on the internet, it seems to me. Should we possibly downvote these questions? Should we close them? Or should we treat them like homework questions and on...

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SEJPM
SEJPM
8:22 AM
@EllaRose they are (I actually specifically asked for that a while back)
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Q: Does Ask Patents take coverage questions?

SEJPMI'm mainly active over on Cryptography.SE and as such I'm always worried about patents and alike, especially given the history of patents and cryptography which blocked certain (very useful) techniques (especially RSA, ECC and OCB) from widespread adoption for a long time. Now before implementin...

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kelalaka
kelalaka
2:26 PM
This question was ready to answer but left without an answer.
 
SEJPM
SEJPM
3:07 PM
@kelalaka then either poke somebody in the comments or post your own answer assembled from the comments?
 
kelalaka
kelalaka
@SEJPM I'll poke, That was better to not write here. My head!
 
 
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kelalaka
kelalaka
5:42 PM
What to do with this question? ASk to delete? Give an answer and accept?
Off topic and close?
 
SEJPM
SEJPM
6:06 PM
@kelalaka personally I'd just answer with why the process failed
which I suppose is rooted in the fact that n is a not p*q for two primes
and thus needs the more general carmichael / euler-phi computation
 
kelalaka
kelalaka
@SEJPM That is what I wrote there.
 
SEJPM
SEJPM
@kelalaka well, then put it in an answer?
 
kelalaka
kelalaka
Is ti worth? I don't know. I don't like open question. OK.
 
SEJPM
SEJPM
@kelalaka well, if you really dislike the question, you can still answer and down-vote it / find a duplicate for it
 
kelalaka
kelalaka
@SEJPM OK. I started to write. Next time, I'll consider.
 
SEJPM
SEJPM
6:11 PM
and / or edit it to remove the specific values and replace them by generic variables with the given "wrong" relation
 
kelalaka
kelalaka
In this case it will nor work, I will give an example in the answer. Thanks
 

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