Chapter 1716 Breakthrough?

Mu Sheng also stroked his beard and smiled, "Nephew Chen is right. We had no clue before, but now we have at least one research direction."

Liu Mansha's expression was a little excited, and she said: "Xia Daoyou's discovery has indeed brought us a big step towards the truth! If we continue to study in this direction, maybe we will soon be able to make breakthroughs!"

Seeing everyone's excitement, Xia Ruofei couldn't help but want to pour a pot of cold water.

The black dots on the floating point sphere may be insignificant to ordinary people, but under the detection of the spiritual power of practitioners, they are completely invisible. Xia Ruofei didn't believe that the masters of Yuan Ying and even masters of Yuanshen stage in the ancient cultivation world would not be able to find out.

Such obvious clues, but still unable to obtain substantive discoveries, what does it mean?

It is not so easy to decipher the content represented by this floating point.

Moreover, Xia Ruofei had also been exposed to simple cryptography knowledge during his military service. From the point of view of cryptography, even if Xia Ruofei's guess is correct, that is to say, each floating point represents a character, and the floating point on the sphere The black dots correspond to different characters according to the different styles of the divisions. It is extremely difficult to decipher the content represented by the floating point according to these.

More than 3,000 floats are equivalent to more than 3,000 samples.

And some of them are repeated.

They can start with these repeated floating-points, list possible words, and then make an arrangement according to the level of possibility, replace these floating-points with corresponding words, and then combine the context to infer other floating-points bit by bit Represented text.

It's a process of trial and error, trial and error.

In theory, the first step is the hardest. When more and more floating-points are deciphered, the subsequent deciphering speed will be faster and faster, because there are more contextual contents converted from floating-point as refer to.

In any case, this amount of calculation is an astronomical amount.

Xia Ruofei speculated a little, and finally understood why the ancient cultivation world could not get any results after 50 years of research.

He opened his mouth and said, "Two seniors, Brother Chen, I'm afraid things are not that simple. There are countless possibilities to infer the content of more than 3,000 characters from these floating points. If you want to try all these possibilities, It may not be possible for decades to complete.”

Mu Sheng felt a little unbelievable, he said: "Xia Xiaoxiong, it shouldn't be so exaggerated! There are only more than 3,000 floating points in total!"

Mu Sheng considered it from the perspective of a Jindan stage cultivator,

Because their mental power is very strong and their brains are highly developed, their thinking speed is much faster than that of ordinary people. He felt that even if they tried word by word, it should not take long.

Three years and five years are enough!

How could it not be done in decades?

Xia Ruofei smiled and said: "Master Mu, let me give an example! There are about two or three thousand Chinese characters that we commonly use now, and if they are used more frequently, there are at least one or two hundred. That is to say, even if It is only to check high-frequency Chinese characters. There are also one or two hundred possibilities for these floating-point repeated occurrences. Every time a floating-point is deciphered, it must be multiplied by two or three thousand. In addition, we must also consider the token's The age, the difference between the writing at that time and the writing now... The final calculation may be so large that we can't imagine it at all!"

Chen Xuan also said: "Uncle Mu, Brother Xia is right. I heard that some organizations in the secular world that study code-breaking use extremely fast supercomputers for their work, because they rely entirely on manpower..."

Speaking of this, Chen Xuan suddenly stopped, he and Xia Ruofei looked at each other, their eyes lit up, and they shouted in unison: "Supercomputer!"

"...What kind of chicken? Isn't chicken for eating? How can you help us crack the secret of the token?" Mu Sheng was at a loss.

Mu Sheng doesn't know much about the secular world, and he has no interest in learning about modern technology.

Relatively speaking, his son Mu Jianfei was a young man after all, and he still had some contact with some things in the mundane world.

Seeing his father's ignorant appearance, Mu Jianfei couldn't help covering his face, then raised his head and said helplessly, "Father, it's a supercomputer, this is a kind of technological equipment in the secular world, and it's not something you usually cook and eat. chicken."

Xia Ruofei briefly popularized science and said, "Master Mu, a supercomputer is a high-level machine that can perform some complex operations in place of humans. The biggest feature is that it has a large amount of data storage and a computing speed that far exceeds that of the human brain. Take Huaxia's 'Sunway TaihuLight' supercomputer as an example. It can perform an average of 930 million operations per second, and it can reach 1.25 billion operations at the fastest time. No matter how strong the cultivator is, it is impossible to do it. to this extent.”

Mu Sheng couldn't help stunned when he heard the words, and said, "One hundred million times..."

In fact, Xia Ruofei's explanation is not strictly accurate, but it is very intuitive, allowing Mu Sheng and Liu Mansha to immediately understand the huge advantages of supercomputers compared to human brain computing.

In fact, supercomputers are not used to compare with the human brain at all, because it is not an order of magnitude at all.

Chen Xuan said excitedly: "Brother Xia, maybe it is really feasible! If we rely on us to calculate the characters represented by each floating point bit by bit, even a poor lifetime may not be able to complete it, but it is handed over to a supercomputer. If so, it will be much faster!"

Xia Ruofei said calmly: "It's not necessarily so optimistic. First of all, the super calculation is only responsible for the calculation. How to crack the password must be built by ourselves. Supercomputers are generally located in large national scientific research institutions or large technology companies. The timing of supercomputing has always been very tight, and we may not be able to coordinate it; there is also the issue of confidentiality. This token is called five Whether it’s the Holy Order or the Rising Dragon Order, even in the cultivation world, we should keep our mouths shut, otherwise it will inevitably cause an uproar, and as for the secular world, let alone leak it out.”

Mu Sheng and Liu Mansha couldn't understand what Xia Ruofei said about supercomputers, but they agreed with the third point he said.

Liu Mansha said directly: "Xia Daoyou is right, no matter what method is used to crack it, the premise is that the secret must not be leaked, otherwise the cultivation world will definitely cause an uproar!"

Chen Xuan also nodded and said, "Brother Xia is right, but we have a solution anyway! Let's solve the problems you mentioned one by one."

Xia Ruofei asked with a smile: "It's okay to talk about the timing problem. I also know some influential friends in the secular world. I ask them to help coordinate. It should be no problem. But how to build an operation model for cracking floating-point passwords? Which Chinese characters should be used? What are their weights? These problems must be solved by ourselves, and cannot be faked.”

Chen Xuan said: "Brother Xia, we can learn! I know a little bit about computer technology, and I believe you know a lot, Brother Xia. Compared with ordinary people in the secular world, our biggest advantage is the speed of learning knowledge. Fast and comprehensible. I believe that solving these problems will not take too much time, at least faster than we rely on human brains to calculate a little bit!”

"That's it..." Xia Ruofei smiled and nodded and said, "But don't forget, all of this is based on the premise that my previous inference that each floating point represents a word is correct! In case I guess wrong Then all our work will be useless."

"Research is a process of constant trial and error!" Chen Xuan said nonchalantly, "Besides, it won't take us too much time, I think it's totally worth it! Two seniors, what do you think?"

Liu Mansha and Mu Sheng also nodded without hesitation, and the two said in unison, "Totally agree!"

Xia Ruofei couldn't help laughing when he heard the words. He stood up and said, "Since everyone agrees, let's give it a try!"

In fact, Xia Ruofei is also inclined to this judgment in his heart.

Compared with the monks of today, the masters of the Nascent Soul and Nascent Souls in the ancient cultivation world are a lot stronger in all fields related to cultivation, and they are unable to complete the cracking work. Why are the monks able to complete it?

Xia Ruofei felt that if he really wanted to count, he could only find the difference in computing speed.

He believed that even those masters of the primordial spirit and primordial spirit in the ancient cultivation world, in terms of computing speed, compared with supercomputers, they would only be crushed!

Maybe, their cracking work this time, it is really possible to use modern technology to find a breakthrough!

Xia Ruofei looked at the token on the table, pondered for a while, and said, "Two seniors, Brother Chen, I think the first thing we need to do is to scan the floating point pattern intact, and it must be Use very high-definition scanning equipment!”