Interesting - could easily see this developing into a distributed app that churns away on idle CPU cycle much like s...@home used to in the good old days of the dotcom era. I mean distributed in the sense that people don't end up checking the same 32-bit strings and repeating work. Could see this then develop into a peer-to-peer bittorrent style distribution system of sharing results and workload.
Wish I had more time :-) Anyway, good luck! I really like the simplicity of the site btw. Cheers, -Dan On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 6:47 AM, Elliott Kember <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > It's been a while since I've posted on here since I'm living in the UK > now, but I thought I'd tell you all about a project I've started. It's > the search for the "Kember Identity"; a string which, when MD5 hashed, > returns itself - such that md5(x) == x. > > The project is at > http://www.elliottkember.com/kember_identity.html > > And all the code is at > http://github.com/elliottkember/The-Kember-Identity/tree/master > > I've put US$100 towards the prize pool. I don't really expect anybody > to pay - hacking together some perl seems to be easier than paying to > enter. The chances of someone finding it are so slim that my money's > fairly safe. So best of luck - it might only take a few hundred > million years! > > Thanks, > Elliott > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
