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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by H8crilA on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:40PM (#37471701)
This means there's quite a lot of solutions. Running the entire 2^56 would take over 770 core-days if one core can achieve an impossible 1 giga-iterations per second.
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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by yuliyp on Monday September 11, 2023 @03:18PM (#37472321)
It's 2^28, not 2^56. A hex digit is 4 bits, and we have 7 such digits to match.
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Re:The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eight, two... by H8crilA on Monday September 11, 2023 @04:14PM (#37473008)
Ugh, you are right. That was a bit embarrassing :)
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