From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2011-03-16T13:43:13+09:00
Subject: Re: SHA1 Decryption!!

Brian Candler wrote in post #987608:
> 1000.times do |i|
>   1000.times do |j|
>     if Digest::SHA1.hexdigest("N59 52.%03d E017 42.%03d" % [i,j]) == TARGET
>       raise "Whoo! #{i} #{j}"

You can't do this: there might be another location with the same hash. 
You have to prove (mathematically) that no two locations can have the 
same SHA1 hash.

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