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Show HN: Reverse engineering GitHub's identicon algorithm

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Post by kshvmdn » Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 11:13 PM UTC

Re: Show HN: Reverse engineering GitHub's identicon algorithm

Post by IshKebab » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 2:46 PM UTC

I mean, if you're relying on enumerating every user why reverse anything? Just generate all of their identicons.

Post by kshvmdn » Sun, Mar 27, 2022, 4:49 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #2

I mean, if you're relying on enumerating every user why reverse anything? Just generate all of their identicons.

Yeah, fair point. I think I was more curious in seeing if there was a way to find ids that map to a specific avatar.