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Many current cryptographical methods (encoding methods) are based on the difficulty of factoring large numbers. Roughly speaking, you multiply two large prime numbers together. Finding the code is equivalent to factoring the result, which is very difficult. However, if somebody knows the code (the original factors), it's easy to check whether their product is equal to the given number.

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