one of the difficulties of chatting online with cool techy trans girls is that it can at times be difficult to tell a keysmash from an encryption key

[foone@digipres.club]

@gsuberland did you rainbow tables me and figure out what it means?

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@foone I did indeed

[scy@chaos.social]

@gsuberland @foone DuckDuckGo did work for me, too

But I wouldn't have thought of trying if it weren't for your comment

[foone@digipres.club]

@gsuberland nice. I was hoping it'd be easy enough to figure out!

although I could have always gone with md5 if I wanted to be sure

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@scy @foone that would've been my route had it not been that I already had the lookup command in my history for unrelated reasons

[byte@rage.love]

@gsuberland @foone what rainbow table did you use? I am trying to figure it out myself

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@Byte @foone it's sha3-256

[tachi@kudzu.ca]

@gsuberland @scy @foone I typed the hash into the computer and it says that "one or several hashes doesn't seem to be valid" *insert pic of Andy from Parks and Rec*

[astraleureka@social.treehouse.systems]

@gsuberland @foone I am not going to download keccak rainbow tables for a shitpost.
I am not going to download keccak rainbow tables for a shitpost.
I am not going to download keccak rainbow tables for a shitpost.
*struggles to avoid opening terminal*

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@tachi @scy @foone if you're using hashcat that means you need to prefix the hash with the correct format for the hash type you specified in the command line args

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@tachi @scy @foone which should be sha3-256 (keccak)

[0@corteximplant.com]

@foone huh I didn't see you in the chat with goddess and kitten

[bloognoo@retro.pizza]

@foone
From now on I will use this handy rhyme

'If it uses valid hex,
Then it isn't flirty text,
If it has P, L, U, R or T,
Then it won't work as a key'

There are going to be exceptions, but aren't there always...

[foone@digipres.club]

@0 weird. It's simply impossible that there's two separate chats that feature both a Goddess and a kitten, right?

[byte@rage.love]

@gsuberland @foone can’t find a table online that has the preimage for that one

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@Byte @foone you could also throw it into hashcat with a simple dictionary search

[byte@rage.love]

@gsuberland @foone I didn't have a local rainbow table tool installed at the time

I will look into that

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@Byte @foone if you wanna spoil yourself a bit, save the effort, you could also just search the internet for the hash. tons of tables have online indices so they show up in DDG results. but that's a bit less fun

[byte@rage.love]

@gsuberland @foone i figured it out

hashcat -m 17400 -a 3 $HASH

made the fans spin and gave me the output.

[gsuberland@chaos.social]

@Byte @foone success! \o/