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I just made a lucky guess from the keywords in the article: $ echo -n 'P100D' | sha256sum 5fc38436ec295b0049f186651ebba5fd55e8d7b81eb61cbd00d3f1bf18dd

• mikeash 11y ago
  It's so short that you can also just brute force it. Using hashcat in "try all short alphanumeric+symbols strings in increasing length" mode on this hash produces the resulting string in about ten seconds on my computer. I imagine it was just guessed, though. Any Tesla fan thinking of "cool new upgrade to the car, currently secret" would put a P100D model near the top of the list of things to try.
  • ChristianBundy 11y ago
    Yep. There are plenty of sites that have already brute-forced hashes for arbitrary n-length alphanumeric strings. https://md5hashing.net/hash/sha256/5fc38436ec295b0049f186651ebba5fd55e8d7b81eb61cbd00d3f1bf18dd9c81 https://md5hashing.net/hash/sha256/5fc38436ec295b0049f186651...
  • nacs 11y ago
    He clearly should have added a salt to that hash..