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Puzzle 3

9th November

18:45 UTC

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.


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Puzzle Preparation

To give you a better chance of solving this puzzle, we suggest that you look through some relevant background materials. For this particular puzzle, checking out a previous lecture from Stanford will be useful.

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Puzzle Preparation

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Puzzle Hints

Read these proofs to get some inspiration, then inspect the serialized proofs and see if there’s anything funky... Look at what the extractor does and read about nonce reuse here.
Comm_r in proof 2 is double the comm_r in proof 1



Puzzle Winners


gold 01

Rumata888

Puzzle completed

Score

1000.0

silver 02

TrapdoorTech

Puzzle completed

Score

904.12

bronze 03

learningalbert123

Puzzle completed

Score

904.10

You can see all of the scores for this puzzle in the spreadsheet here.

Puzzle Solutions

The winner of the puzzle write up was submitted by grjte, which you can view here. There were many excellent puzzle write ups submitted, you can view them directly here:

* Solution by tom marvolo riddle
* Solution by TrapdoorTech
* Solution by ZeroFearSyndrom
* Solution by io