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September 7, 2008
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Posted by roc at September 7, 2008 12:30 AM
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Interesting. I'd disagree with some particulars of your argument, but in the main I think it's sound.
Posted by: Steve Laniel at September 7, 2008 1:58 AM
I forget: Are these things that you'll eventually reveal at some future point in time, or are they private things for a select group of people?
Posted by: Jeff Schiller at September 7, 2008 2:15 AM
I both love it and hate it when you do this.
Posted by: Christopher Blizzard at September 7, 2008 6:48 AM
Can't find this anywhere else on the web. ;)
Posted by: Paul at September 7, 2008 10:49 AM
Gee, this is getting popular. I’m not sure how much I like this trend.
Posted by: Aristotle Pagaltzis at September 7, 2008 11:15 AM
No-one has the plaintext for any of them yet.
Posted by: Robert O'Callahan at September 7, 2008 6:53 PM
My prediction: "Google Chrome will crash and burn and Firefox will live forever!"
Posted by: Michael at September 8, 2008 7:50 AM
"No-one has the plaintext for any of them yet."
not even you!?!?
Posted by: sky at September 8, 2008 12:19 PM
Robert, you are way off the mark, obviously 4a8dec89f08156ec972ddc3ff319eb02
Posted by: Jim Battle at September 8, 2008 3:39 PM
Er yeah, *I* have the plaintext. Sorry about the confusion.
Posted by: Robert O'Callahan at September 8, 2008 6:50 PM
Groan.... this post is too long. Can someone sum it up for people like me?
Posted by: Michael at September 8, 2008 10:30 PM
Well, the best part about this is that you won't reveal them if they don't come true -- nobody has to see the wrong predictions...
Posted by: hmm at September 9, 2008 12:49 PM
Robert,
Could you give us a timeframe for when you might possibly reveal the plain text?
eg.
4a8dec89f08156ec972ddc3ff319eb01 within 5 years
And don't mess with us too much. Could you please not say "within 5 years" if, in reality, you know the foretold event/thing/whatever will come to pass within 3 months.
Any chance of this??
Cheers,
Jeff
Posted by: Jeff at September 9, 2008 2:28 PM
I say we all start a massive distributed computing effort to decode the hash. If we don't get the actual answer, maybe we could at least get some entertaining collisions.
Posted by: Christopher Robert Jaquez at September 10, 2008 6:23 AM
Unless I missed something, there's still been no post explaining either of your previous hashes:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2007/01/ec06b3461cf0eaf.html
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2008/06/5ce9134be8a642e.html
That first one is approaching its second birthday, so I wonder if the "very interesting... cause serious harm" bit refers to you waiting out the statute of limitations (presumably so you don't get someone else in trouble) on something.
Posted by: Mysterious Andy at September 11, 2008 2:00 AM