Question & Answer: You are part of the Cryptographic Security Team at a military facility, tasked with decoding messages as required. A…..

You are part of the Cryptographic Security Team at a military facility, tasked with decoding messages as required. A message has come in from HQ, as an ordered collection of numbers, which is personalised for yourself and aimed at testing aspects of your decoding skills. 247500, 6592, 260579, 432387, 161248, 59058, 360194, 126355, 266199, 315721, 329746, 442869 These numbers (above) have each been encoded using RSA with a modulus of m = pq = 496241 (with p and q being primes) and encoding exponent of 218821. You are advised that {13631, 142703} is a valid encoding-decoding pair for the same modulus, m. (a) Use this information to determine phi (m) for this modulus. (Using software to directly factorise m is not a valid option for doing this part.) (b) Verify your answer by determining the primes p and q. Show how these combine to give both m and phi (m). (c) Calculate the decoding exponent for 218821, as encoding exponent, using the extended Euclidean algorithm. (Again, using software to directly obtain this is not a valid option, though you are welcome to use software to confirm your answer.) (d) For each of the 12 numbers in your message, verify they have no prime factors in common with m. (It is OK to use software for this task, provided you have answered the previous part.)