The Public Key

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Stage: 5 Challenge Level: Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3 Challenge Level:3
This problem is intended to be tackled in conjunction with reading the article on Public Key Cryptography though it is not essential to understand the details of Public Key Cryptography in order to do the problem. In itself it is a challenge to systematically reduce the large number $180^{59}$ (using modulus arithmetic) to one which the calculator can handle and finally to its equivalent modulo 391.

Published March 2004,April 2004.