F-Secure's Question of the day

From F-Secure Weblog : News from the Lab, (spoiler: answer below)

Question of the day: How come you get over 160,000 hits when you search Google for "d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e"?

Pretty much the same thing for "da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709".

Answers on a self-addressed envelope to

The answer:

marcin@thinker:~$ touch temp
marcin@thinker:~$ md5sum temp
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  temp
marcin@thinker:~$ sha1sum temp
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709  temp

Posted by Marcin on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 in Security.