• apftwb@lemmy.worldOP
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    18 hours ago

    I mean the problem is that even with human eyes it’s still really hard to tell l and 1 in that font.

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      17 hours ago

      Not an expert at all but I’m genuinely curious how long it would take to check all possibilities for each I or 1? Is that the full length of the hash or whatever? So in this example image we have 2^8 =256 different possibilities to check? Seems like that would be easy enough for a computer.

      Edit: actually read the article. It’s much more complicated than this. This isn’t really the only issue and the base64 in the example was 76 pages long.