22nd November
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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.
See puzzle details on Github
Puzzle linkPuzzle Hints
1. g and h might have been tricky to calculate, this will help: link
2. Note how f is masked as c*f + s in protocol 5.8 in the Aurora paper
3. Can you use s to cancel out f?
Puzzle Winners
01
wborgeaud
Puzzle completed
Score
1000
02
niooss-ledger
Puzzle completed
Score
998.6
03
Konstantce
Puzzle completed
Score
992.8
You can see all of the scores for this puzzle in the spreadsheet here.
Puzzle Solutions and Write-ups
The winner of the puzzle write up was submitted by tamirhemo. You can view the solution and puzzle write up
here.
The background material required to solve the puzzle is also covered in the write up.
There were many interesting write-up submissions which are linked below:
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