The Game week

[Blizzard]

*points at new title*

[Zeriab]

Now I can be any number of names D:

[Blizzard]

I think our avatars and signatures still give us away. D:

[fugibo]

YAPPPAAAAA

I think we should have done octal though :V Mlore funl.

EDIT:
Gotta say, BEST WEEK EVAR!!!!!!1

[Vell]

lol 32 bit. I can't read it. good thing the entire forum isn't like this.

[Blizzard]

It's basically a number between 0 and 2³²-1 in base 16 and that's all.

[fugibo]

It's basically a number between 0 and 2³²-1 in base 16 and that's all.

The leading "0x" obviously is there to denote hexadecimal, of course.

[Blizzard]

Yes, of course.

[Starrodkirby86]

I want mine to be over 9000. What credentials will equal this?

Geez, when are we going to reach regular sanity...

[Blizzard]

I want mine to be over 9000. What credentials will equal this?

Impossible to find out. You can't reverse a hash function and get back the original value. ._. And it's already over 9000, it's 1800381616.

Geez, when are we going to reach regular sanity...

Next week.

[fugibo]

What if two people get the same hash? 0_o

BTW, what hashing method are you using?

[Blizzard]

CRC32. So we all get nice 32 bit hex strings.

And yes, it's possible that two people get the same hash. But let's face it, chances are 1:2³² so who cares. xD

[fugibo]

CRC32. So we all get nice 32 bit hex strings.

And yes, it's possible that two people get the same hash. But let's face it, chances are 1:2³² so who cares. xD

But say I coincidentally got "drunk" and registered with a "randomly" named new account that "just happened" to be reverse-engineered from the name WcW and the CRC32 source code. What would happen? :V

[Blizzard]

You don't get what I mean. Hash functions are not injections. It's not possible to reverse engineer from which name input you got this hex string output because there are more than 1 (in fact infinite) inputs that can generate the same hash code. All you can do is to exclude all the input values that result in the other hash codes, but you can never find the original input that was used to create your output.

Imagine you have the number 6. How did I get it? It could have been 1+5. Or 2*3. Or -10+16. You can't know. Of course you know it wasn't 4+7 or 5*3. But you still don't know which it was. And you have an infinite amount of possibilities.

[fugibo]

Hypothetically, though, would the forum crash? :V

[Blizzard]

Nope. It's just a display hack. Your usernames are all still the same.

[legacyblade]

Hashitize me, blizzard!

[Holyrapid]

No, wait, no japanese names... thats lame and boring compard to this!
Everybody´s names are spelled without use of letters. Example:
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Blizzard

[Kagutsuchi]

Oh! Oh! Evil Kitten week! >=3

[Diokatsu]

Wow this is confusing.