full-disclosure - Re: Month of Random Hashes: DAY THREE

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:32:59 +0300
From: Tõnu Samuel <tonu@....ee>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Month of Random Hashes: DAY THREE

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 23:16 -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:

> Hashing is not encryption, so flush the notion of "decrypt a hash" from

By definition hashing stuff is also encryption. Not reversible but as
art it is can be categorized under "encryption" :)

> But seeing as this is FD and there has been a rash of "Month of Foo"
> nonsense, I think someone is just taking the piss and further degrading
> the already miniscule SNR of this list.  Unless a posted hash is
> correlated to the release of some POC or other item of interest, it's
> noise.

Actually author who posted those hashes are known man and I am sure if
he posted something, this is cool and I am really sitting and waiting
what he have found. Also I know that he usually provides POC after 6 or
12 months AT LEAST, so do not expect fast info.

   Tõnu

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