On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:04:02AM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: [snip] > Interesting idea though, using Google to reverse hashes... in that > case you wouldn't even need to know the algorithm used to hash it!
Erm... not really. There are many hash algorithms that give outputs with the same length; thus, different strings hashed with different algorithms may produce the same value - and the one found using Google may be for the wrong algorithm :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I am not the subject of this sentence.
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