Welcome to the 2024 april fools mini-contest organized by HashMob.
Here is some information about it all:
- Start time: 2024-04-01 @ 12:00 UTC
- End time: 2024-04-07 @ 12:00 UTC
- Status: The contest has ended. Congratulations to our winners.
- Nature: Casual? I suppose that depends
- Goal: Crack hashes
- Download hashes: Sign up first
Hash information:
- Hashes can be downloaded here: Sign up first
- The plaintext of each hash is known to us (the organizers)
- The plaintext of each hash will be published at the end of the contest
Score information:
- Every hash is worth at least 1 point.
- Every hour that a hash is not cracked, the points increase exponentially (n = hours, score=2^(0.06n)).
- As soon as a hash is cracked by any user (first blood), the points will start falling back down each minute until it reaches 1 after an hour.
- A public log is kept of all hashes and their estimated point values.
- A public log is kept of hash and the time they were cracked.
- Scores are updated every minute.
Rules:
- Do not share hashes.
- Do not cheat in any other way
- Automation of submission is allowed. Excessive spamming is not
- Have fun
Extra:
The goal of this contest is not to be anything too serious, and is really meant to provide something fun in the downtime of the 'real' contests. At the end of the contest, all data will be made public, including plains (with the exception of passwords, IP's and other PII).