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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by philfreo on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:52PM (#715164)
I hope you aren't disappointed when you a see a new update on your AJAX postback page that looks like a new winning string, when you see it is simply a note from me. :)

(I also generated a few hundred thousand hashes for you)

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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by philfreo on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:59PM (#715182)
uhh.. sorry if I broke it. It now says the smallest hamming distance found is zero, so either you had a major breakthrough or something went wrong.

Edit: it's back up to 43, a nice improvement from 48 from a few minutes ago.

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Re:Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard ch... by sil3ntmac on Monday July 20, 2009 @05:15PM (#715223)
Thanks Phil :)

I added a word checker, so no more of this tomfoolery!

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