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http://www.elliottkember.com/kember_identity.html

Basically, it's a search for the magical "md5($string) == $string" value. Fun. However, it almost certainly won't show up in our lifetimes, even when taking Moore's law into account.

Any thoughts on this?
(edit: fixed the title)

Wow, now even the anti-IE crowd is trying to shove IE8 down our throats...

Issues:

• Why the hell should it get Kember's name on it? The string should be named after whoever discovers it.
• Since md5 can be solved faster than brute-force, it follows that there should be a way to find a fixed-point that's also faster than brute force.
• Writing code in a bunch of different languages is dumb; it should all be written in FORTRAN.
• It's kind of a silly project; we'd all be better off if you donated your empty computer cycles to Folding@home instead of this.

scythe33 wrote:Issues:

• Why the hell should it get Kember's name on it? The string should be named after whoever discovers it.
• It's kind of a silly project; we'd all be better off if you donated your empty computer cycles to Folding@home instead of this.

Totally agree.

It doesn't even look like there's any kind of distributed system in place. I don't get it.