[NTLUG:Discuss] Perl program to get prime number, gunzip it to source code

[don]

Its probably just dumb luck that its a prime number, but any program 
will eventually get broken down into a series of digits.....  They could 
have edited the resulting executable into one giant hex number, 
converted to decimal, etc etc

Christopher Browne wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 12:41:07 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
> Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org>  said:
> 
>> Basically it extracts a the prime number off of a web site and
>> runs it through gunzip... thus producing the DeCSS program.
> 
> 
> It seems to work, bizarrely enough; how on _earth_ did they come up with
> this one?
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