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> But in that list of files, is a line item for the manifest file itself and along with its own hash! Something that on the surface looks completely innocuous b
by anonymous_sorry 4y ago
> But in that list of files, is a line item for the manifest file itself and along with its own hash! Something that on the surface looks completely innocuous but becomes profoundly impressive as you ponder it.
Agree this would be cool. But there would be one last realisation after contemplating it for just a little longer. The sheer number CPU cycles that would have to have been committed to achieving it would be awful. Like Bitcoin mining but orders of magnitude even more wasteful.
- danbruc 4y agoOr they "just" broke the hash algorithm.