The Mathsbombe Competition

2016 edition. From the people behind the Alan Turing Cryptography Competition.
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Problem 8

Rivest, Shamir & Adleman have sent you a coded message using a key length of 3127 and public key of 17. The coded message is given below, but what was the original message?

459 39 320 3113 1107 959 1064 2776 842 2548 2055 1508 778 3014 1435 800 1508 367 2462 2430 2548 1620 652

Your answer will be a phrase in English. Please enter the entire phrase, with no spaces, as your answer.

Mathsbombe Competition 2016 is organised by the The Department of Mathematics at The University of Manchester.
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