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If you're feeling lucky, you can give it a shot by guessing the sha1 hash here: https://wending.dev/hash_guessing/ https://wending.dev/hash_guessing/

• Aachen 3y ago
  Wait, that just generates the sha1 of your input string and nothing more? Because as the post says, it has to include a counter of some sort. I'm sure the NSA's seeder didn't just sit there and enter 500 unique phrases until they hit one that gives a nice curve, if they had any idea about cryptography and computers whatsoever. Or even if that's how it went down, variants with a dot at the end, capitalizing the sentence, title casing, ... The list of plausible variations one should try might never be exhaustive, but this page doing nothing but generating a sha1 hash makes it practically impossible to find you the hash even if you got the string right with correct punctuation and capitalization. The easiest/least thing it could do is check if the first or last ten bytes match to see if the resulting hash was incremented, though even that would mostly be asking people to waste time on the page, since the author knows it won't go anywhere. It should be remarked on the page that it is a toy for demonstration purposes and will not actually let you find the seed even if you guessed correctly