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This reminds me of the holy Grail (for me anyway) of a file containing its own hash
by Doubl 7y ago
This reminds me of the holy Grail (for me anyway) of a file containing its own hash
- krferriter 7y agoActually, quantum mechanics allows this
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoHow about a comment containing it's own item ID ...? 20456050
- brokenmachine 7y agoIt's not that difficult to do if you use a weak hash (eg crc32) and bruteforce it. Also you could pad the file with some extra data, but that feels like cheating.
- aasasd 7y agoWhat do you know, this has been posted in another comment in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13823704