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The Kember Identity (elliottkember.com)
4 points by edw519 on May 6, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



All of the programs there have a fatal flaw in their logic.

If any of them come across a collision - where 2 strings hash to the same value - then it will just go into a "loop".

The chances of that happening in that key space is probably fairly high (based on my experience).

EDIT: also I have 80 billion hashes a few clicks away and none of the 32bit string ones in there (estimate: between 5 and 10 billion ) that I have run a quick test against (so far about 100 million or so) proved negative. Should be done by tomorrow... I doubt there will be match.




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