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Re: Be the first newbie to answer correct and get 1 merit
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Kwsikh
on 21/03/2022, 18:11:35 UTC
But from what I know, SHA-1 is a one way hash right? It isnt possible to decrypt it without maybe brute forcing? Because thats what the hash is meant to be - irreversible?
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Unless I'm missing something here...
Yes, you're correct, there's no way to reverse it aside from bruteforce.

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 (and probably variations of them) and a typical computer can bruteforce it within a few minutes/hours.
Then you can get 1 merit  Grin

All things going out of my head if it was known by me then may be i also might be a Hero member!!