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My favorite MD5

Posted in Code by Elliott Back on May 11th, 2005.

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e

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2 Responses to “My favorite MD5”

  1. Elliott Back says:

    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 ;)

  2. Antony Mee says:

    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?

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