BeatTheHash - A Hash Guessing Game Inspired by xkcd
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I stumbled across this site. It's a kind of guessing game where you try to guess what the original content of a hash value is. Guesses are hashed and then scored by counting how many bits are different from the target hash so a random guess ought to be 512 or so. You're probably supposed to write a program to do the guessing for you.
Only your lowest score is kept. Can you beat the hash?
Disclaimer: not my site but I'm in love with the idea
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I stumbled across this site. It's a kind of guessing game where you try to guess what the original content of a hash value is. Guesses are hashed and then scored by counting how many bits are different from the target hash so a random guess ought to be 512 or so. You're probably supposed to write a program to do the guessing for you.
Only your lowest score is kept. Can you beat the hash?
Disclaimer: not my site but I'm in love with the idea
That's... not how hashes work.
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That's... not how hashes work.
️Sure it doesn't guide you to guesses that are closer and closer to the original, but that's not the point. If I understand Randall's original intent, he wanted a a random school so he could use a university in a comic and this sounds like it would have been a fun competition back before the comic solidified.
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That's... not how hashes work.
️I mean... Isn't that?
It's "~~beat~ [guess] the hash [with distributed gamified brute force]"