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I think theyre suggesting hashing all of libgen and distributing and working backwards from that hash, as a joke
by bepvte 8y ago
I think theyre suggesting hashing all of libgen and distributing and working backwards from that hash, as a joke
- na85 8y agoIt's not totally ridiculous, just wildly impractical. There is a hash out there that if brute-forced would yield a Windows 10 version of Half-Life 3.
- snovv_crash 8y agoAmong many other things.
- raxxorrax 8y agoChose your hash carefully or might end up with the ask toolbar for windows ME because of collisions.
- isostatic 8y agoThere are an infinite amount of things that hash to a given hash. For something of the size of half life 3 (about 2GB? no idea), the number of collissions would be far more than the number of atoms in the universe.
- Dylan16807 8y agoTo provide a much tighter bound, you reach "atoms in the universe" levels of collision once your hash inputs are 260-270 bits bigger than the hash output. No need for even a single kilobyte. Almost a "Graham's number" level of understatement.
- jancsika 8y agoWell I wrote it wrong. Imagine something like finding the seed for a pseudorandom number generator where the numbers generated form the byte pattern for libgen. That's similar to the cryptominer hashing where people just have rigs enumerating through possible values to generate a hash with the appropriate number of leading zeros. It's just that libgen would be little bit longer than a hash and also have some ones interspersed with the zeros.