My favorite MD5
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
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I find it unimaginable that you got away with posting this without at least one person asking why… Hence I feel it has become my duty…
So I tried some obvious things like you name, but didn’t find it.
a) Why is this your favourite MD5 hash?
b) Why do you have a favourite MD5 hash?
Elliott@axiomatic ~
$ touch nothing
Elliott@axiomatic ~
$ md5sum nothing
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e *nothing
So, I came across this tracking down a hashcash bug in one of the VERY OLD releases