Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-26130256-20151030063516/@comment-26130256-20151202170732

(WIP, patience)

"Everybody calm down," Brine said, typing away on a keyboard. "I've already hacked his phone, and all of those photos have already been taken back and replaced with some good old kittens.  Now, the best way to keep you all happy is with carrots, not sticks.  Can someone reach into that centerpiece and pull out the envelopes?" Shrugging his shoulders, Azulius pulled out the envelopes and opened the first one. Inside was a single check. Pay to the order of Nocte Sitis:  $50,000 Lien. Each of the people at the table had a similar check, and the magician passed them out to their rightful owners as Brine continued.

"Now that's the first half of your payment.  I'll give out the second half after the job is done, as well as whatever... bonuses you can accrue.  Consider that my thanks for coming today.  If you still want out, you can, but you'll need to stay in the custody of someone else here until the job is done.  Can't have you blabbing to Master's before the big surprise.  Which brings me to the actual job.  In order to understand why this is such a big deal, I'm going to have to tell a little story.  Pay attention, because they're may be a quiz on this later."

"One of the biggest questions in cryptography has always been how to send a secure message to someone when you only have an unsecured means of communication.  You can't call them to explain the code, because the bad guys will overhear you and just intercept your message.  Roughly thirty years ago, a team of mathmatecians finally figured out a way to do it, which we now call the RSA algorithm.  The fact that it still makes up over 99% of modern encryption schemes should tell you how secure it is."

"Actually getting how RSA works would need you all to go get a PhD in some very specific branches of math.  The important bit here is that the reason it's so secure"