A program that brute-forces the Skein hashing algorithm in an attempt to win xkcd's hash-breaking competition for The Evergreen State College. Made real quick and super sloppy. To be run on the SLACR cluster, or really any other computer that runs python.
We've currently got evergreen.edu only 411 409 bits off the target hash on the leaderboards. While good, look at all those other punks who are currently beating us! Unnacceptable.
Make sure pyskein is installed (pip install pyskein) and run:
python3 xkcd-hasher.py <num of hash attempts> <length of input string> <score to beat>
- add execnet implementation
scrape evergreen's current placement from the leaderboard automatically- notify a successful input (< target score) in a more alertive way
- most likely by triggering /usr/local/sbin/epic_cuckoo.sh
- do I really need a TODO? this should just be a gist in all seriousness
- yep. it's a gist now.