I become bored very easily and so I must find something to counter that. One thing that I have found to be very helpful is to practice coding. When I am in the mood I feel that challenging myself to make a fully functional site is a great way to sharpen my skills.
My latest project of this nature is Hashle. Hashle is an interesting take on a pre-computed hash DB. What it does is instead of just running through all the possible combinations of letters numbers and every othertype of character, Hashle takes input from the user and adds just those hashes to the DB. This is important because who would use “fsdfshgfh5g756dc45fsfbae” as a password, it is just impractical to calculate all of those passwords that have a very little chance of being used, whereas users can input words that are will most likely used. Also users are more likely to try typing in their password to see what their password would look like as a hash.
If you don’t already know what hashes are you can check out this wonderful video made by the IPTV show Hak.5 here.
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