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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...