@Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone
2026-09-07 21:35 UTC
I wonder how viable it would be to bruteforce it. Not a serious proposal but still fun to think about
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@73QjabParc34Vebq@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-09-07 21:44
It absolutely could be brute forced, we litrally have the hash of the chunk. I’ve thought about it before too, if one seeder is constantly giving, or refusing to even give, the chuck because of the hash mismatch, odds are it’s only a bit flipped somewhere. Another option that I’ve done before is find the file elsewhere, and switch it out. Seed for a long time then, you weren’t the only person at 99.9%.
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@BeefAndPoultry@lemmus.org 2026-09-08 01:03
The problem is there will be multiple solutions that result in the same hash (collisions), but only one of them will be correct And it would take an extremely long time to find them all, I don’t even think a modern GPU could do it in a lifetime