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It's an interesting topic but this post barely covers it. The Wikipedia article on illegal numbers is much more informative and interesting. https://en.wikipedi
by adzm 4y ago
It's an interesting topic but this post barely covers it. The Wikipedia article on illegal numbers is much more informative and interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
- InitialLastName 4y agoThe way this is written makes me suspect that the post itself would hash to an illegal number, but I don't have the capacity to check it out.
- GuB-42 4y agoNone of the major cryptographic hashes (MD5, SHA-*) have practical preimage attacks. It means pulling off what the author suggests (having a document hash to an illegal number) is impossible in practice, at least for now. It could be possible using a non-cryptographic hash (murmurhash, CRC,...).