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The young and very promising cryptographer Odd Even has implemented the security module of a large system with thousands of users, which is now in use in his company.

The cryptographic keys are created from the product of two primes, and are believed to be secure because there is no known method for factoring such a product effectively.

What Odd Even did not think of, was that both factors in a key should be large, not just their product. It is now possible that some of the users of the system have weak keys. In a desperate attempt not to be fired, Odd Even secretly goes through all the users keys, to check if they are strong enough. He uses his very poweful Atari, and is especially careful when checking his boss’ key.