Haystack is an entry in Engine Yard’s Hash ‘n Ham contest written in C++. It is multi-threaded/multi-core aware and can compute up to 2.63 million guesses per second on a 2.5ghz MacBook Pro (Intel Core 2 Duo). On a quad core processor, the speed doubles to over five million per second.
Tomorrow morning when the dictionary and source hash are revealed, I’ll be releasing Haystack under an MIT-style license. If you choose to enter the contest using scores generated by Haystack, please tag your message #haystack (or post again afterward, if the message is too long). If you win, the prize is yours.
Good luck!
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POSTED Sunday July 19th
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Ruby developer, creator of Sunago.org, flying high but falling short.
