EngineYard SHA1 contest begins

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/engine-yard-contest-challenge-phrase-and-dictionary/

by jodrellblank • 17 years ago

20 12 17 years ago

And if you haven't been following, the contest is here:

http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2009/programming-contest-win-...

and an interesting thread on using NVidia's CUDA to crunch on it (with code) is here: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=102349

pjdavis• 17 years ago

just to be sure i'm measureing from the correct thing, did everone else get:

0001001001001001110001001011011111110101011110000010000001001111000100000111100110001100000000100110100111111000010010001000001010000000111110111001100110000001

qeorge• 17 years ago

Yes, that's what I got too for the binary equivalent of the sha1'd challenge phrase.

bcl• 17 years ago

Why did they release the phrase and not just the SHA1?

ETA: I'm using 1249c4b7f578204f10798c0269f8488280fb9981

ETA2: Ok, I guess I need to be more clear - by releasing the phrase they remove the possibility (as remote as it is) of someone finding an exact match.

Periodic• 17 years ago

I would have preferred they released both, just so people could be sure nothing got lost in translation (e.g. they added a null accidentally or something).

jpwagner• 17 years ago

they released an example in the original problem statement. calibrate with that.

mattmaroon• 17 years ago

They host the document on AWS.

ezmobius2• 17 years ago

yup we host lots of stuff on aws, why is that an issue?

FiReaNG3L• 17 years ago

I think he was pointing out the cool factor of it

EngineYard SHA1 contest begins

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