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turn a zip file into a prime number
import sympy as sp
fileName = "file.zip"
with open(fileName, mode="rb") as file:
fileContents = bytearray(file.read())
fileContents.append(255)
while not sp.isprime(int.from_bytes(fileContents)):
if (int.from_bytes(fileContents[-1:]) != 0):
print("bruteforcing " + str(int.from_bytes(fileContents[-1:])))
fileContents[-1:] = [int.from_bytes(fileContents[-1:]) - 1]
else:
print("appending")
fileContents.append(255)
print("prime detected")
print(int.from_bytes(fileContents))
with open("file-prime.zip", "wb") as outFile:
outFile.write(fileContents)
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this is very slow, don't use it on anything more than a couple bytes

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