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Well, are you also including the fact that there is nothing forbidding repeated words?
by sophacles 17y ago
Well, are you also including the fact that there is nothing forbidding repeated words?
- jcl 17y agoWhile this has a marginal effect on the total number of possible hashes, repeated words are still an important consideration: If you can guess even one word that is likely to appear in their 1000-word dictionary, you can precompute the hashes for all possible variants of the corresponding phrase (that word repeated twelve times) prior to the contest, giving you a jump on other contestants. I'd guess that we'll either see the rules revised to prevent this or see a dictionary filled with non-dictionary words.