With every failed scheme, Emperor Numerius Augustus grew angrier.
"Enough of these overcomplicated encryptions!" he roared. "Decimus, you shall create one final system—simple, elegant, and unbreakable!"
Decimus, now a broken man, nodded.
"Yes, My Lord. I shall craft the finest digital signature system in all of Rome."
And so, he designed the Imperial Signature Service.
"No one shall forge the Emperor’s words!" he declared. "For I have created an unpredictable nonce system—one so random, so chaotic, that no enemy shall ever recover the key!"
His secret?
CRC32.
"My Lord, I shall use CRC32 as a randomness generator!"
The court was silent.
"And then… I shall use it TWICE! A double nonce!"
The Emperor, growing tired of mathematics, nodded.
"Good, good. Make it so."
But across the empire, the Numerii laughed once more...