Bill Cypher on Nostr: That space is way bigger than it seems at first glance. Even more I didn't consider ...

That space is way bigger than it seems at first glance. Even more I didn't consider here, it could have been a hash of a spreadsheet, word doc, text file, pdf, or others. There was not enough knowledge about the file to brute force it in an hour.

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Spaces, colons, semicolons, periods, Lines vs CSV. Plus as far as I know he didn't pre commit to any algorithms or how he did the weighting in the file. Think 1-4 sha3, 5-7 blake2s instead of repeating the hash for each line. Also he ordered them randomly vs bunching.

The space for the file is way bigger than an intuitive first glance.

Also note that sharing the text may not work. He should have shared the file. CR, LF, or CR/LF could cause issues for people trying to replicate.