Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge • Hacker News Board

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by infinity » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:47 PM UTC

Very cool idea, I wish you good luck!

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by fsniper » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:51 PM UTC

mbrubeck wrote: post #11

fsniper wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well on my dual core, opening a new tab could not fire up the other core. Opening opera side by the firefox did the trick.

I've got two tabs in Chrome using two CPU cores.

Chrome uses different processes per tab. It's their sand boxing tech for security.

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by philfreo » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:52 PM UTC

I hope you aren't disappointed when you a see a new update on your AJAX postback page that looks like a new winning string, when you see it is simply a note from me. :)

(I also generated a few hundred thousand hashes for you)

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:52 PM UTC

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Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by fsniper » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:53 PM UTC

fsniper wrote: post #8

This idea is a really well thought and implemented. This may be a new way of cloud sourcing. Have you considered making a facebook app? It would definitely attract many more people than this. Of course you shou ld offer some carrots for users that do not have any idea what's going on.

oops :) I intended to comment on racymorgan implementation not this one. But this is good too. Opening tabs sometimes cause these mistakes. Sorry for both parties.

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by judofyr » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:54 PM UTC

Did you just get a hamming distance of 0, or is something broken?

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:58 PM UTC

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Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by philfreo » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 8:59 PM UTC

philfreo wrote: post #23

I hope you aren't disappointed when you a see a new update on your AJAX postback page that looks like a new winning string, when you see it is simply a note from me. :) (I also generated a few hundred thousand hashes for you)

uhh.. sorry if I broke it. It now says the smallest hamming distance found is zero, so either you had a major breakthrough or something went wrong.

Edit: it's back up to 43, a nice improvement from 48 from a few minutes ago.

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by barredo » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC

When I started it said: The smallest Hamming distance we've achieved so far is: 48

Now, I opened it also in Safari and says: The smallest Hamming distance we've achieved so far is: 0

0? Does that mean you got one?

Edit: Ok. Solved.

Re: Crowdsourcing Bruteforcing: Help me win the EngineYard challenge

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Post by sil3ntmac » Mon, Jul 20, 2009, 9:00 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #26

Did you just get a hamming distance of 0, or is something broken?

Nah, some script kiddie messin with me. Fixed and patching the hole now...