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		H8crilA on Sept 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SHA256 for this sentence begins with: one, eig... This means there's quite a lot of solutions. Running the entire 2^56 would take over 770 core-days if one core can achieve an impossible 1 giga-iterations per second.

yuliyp on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

It's 2^28, not 2^56. A hex digit is 4 bits, and we have 7 such digits to match.

H8crilA on Sept 11, 2023 | [–]

Ugh, you are right. That was a bit embarrassing :)

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