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Ben Laurie (ben@algroup.co.uk)
Thu, 03 Sep 1998 10:10:37 +0100
Just to go
back to
the
original
idea,
briefly: I
tried this
with
Mathematica
and MD5 a
few months
back.
Suffice it
to say
that "a
long
pause" is
an
understatement.
And all I
asked it
to do was
a
simplification,
nothing
fancy, of
a single
step. :-)
Mathematica
is perhaps
not best
suited,
because it
doesn't
understand
bitwise
operations.
OTOH, you
pretty
much have
to asssign
a symbol
to each
bit, so
perhaps
that
doesn't
matter.
It seemed
to me that
a
special-purpose
solver
with a
more
limited
domain
would
probably
go faster,
but I have
no idea if
that would
be fast
enough. I
haven't
had time
to play
with it
yet.
Cheers,
Ben.
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:13:58