Re: Be the first newbie to answer correct and get 1 merit
But from what I know, SHA-1 is a one way hash right? It isnt possible to decrypt it without maybe brute forcing?
You are 99% correct.
But there's only about 600million song titles out there,
just make a database of all the songs titles, create a simple code to perform SHA1 to each of the titles
just make a database of all the songs titles, create a simple code to perform SHA1 to each of the titles
That would be 10 Merit worthy IMO !!!
But what if there already existed such databases somewhere... food for thought
Okay the only one I could think of that had a dataset available was the Million Song Dataset, and I tried encoding all of the song title names to SHA-1 via some sqlite3 queries and python, and output that out to a csv file. But I couldn't find the hash that I had found in the previous step. My guess is that the database is some different one altogether, I guess I'll give it a few more tries later.