That Google Job Ad

After reading the Google blog entry, Warning We Break For Number Theory I decided to give it a try.

Fortunately or unfortunately I read Davorg's use.perl journal entry on the Google job ad, so the first part was solved for me.

The second part needed a bit more thought. In the end it turned out to be primary school level maths, and a Perl script to generate a sequence of potential passwords. Once I had the potential passwords it was easy, and the first one worked.

Looking on the web afterwards I see that others had solved the puzzle and posted solutions online, so I won't give the answer here, but leave you to do your own research.

Enjoy!