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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by sil3ntmac on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:02PM (#715056)
I don't think there would be much point, hah - JS will definitely be slower than optimized C. It's the crowdsourcing aspect that gives us a chance - it is very easy for anyone to just pull up the web page.
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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by jacquesm on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:26PM (#715112)
If you cook me up a simple tag that does the work in the background without any visual distractions I'll give you a couple of thousand hosts :)
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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by jacquesm on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:05PM (#715062)
have contributed 50k hashes now, will let it run through the night :)

good luck!

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