I wrote a wrapper function around the site generator that took a callback so the next string to test would be called recursively. If a public key matched the public key I was aiming for, I dumped the response to the console, otherwise I just called the wrapper function again.
Then I wrote a function that iterated over a list of strings and output an array with all the possible permutations.
Then I just fed an array of the userids of the top 20 users into that function and fed that function into my wrapper.
I opened 5 browser windows and fed each of them 20 userids to take advantage of multiple cores, but I'm not entirely sure that makes sense to do.
Unfortunately that script would take thousands of years to solve the challenge. Whoever does will need to use a much more creative method - probably something circumventing the need to brute-force.
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Brute forced the 1 BTC award.
The HN user was 'petercooper'.
Did you use the site generator or did you implement in another language?
Using the console:
I wrote a wrapper function around the site generator that took a callback so the next string to test would be called recursively. If a public key matched the public key I was aiming for, I dumped the response to the console, otherwise I just called the wrapper function again.
Then I wrote a function that iterated over a list of strings and output an array with all the possible permutations.
Then I just fed an array of the userids of the top 20 users into that function and fed that function into my wrapper.
I opened 5 browser windows and fed each of them 20 userids to take advantage of multiple cores, but I'm not entirely sure that makes sense to do.
Congratulations! I'm curious to know - is that script now working on the 20BTC's challenge?
Unfortunately that script would take thousands of years to solve the challenge. Whoever does will need to use a much more creative method - probably something circumventing the need to brute-force.
And the password was 'petecoper'
Congrats!