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		saulpw 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made a C program to create a vanity SHA... Cool! I made a multithreaded version about 10 years that works for binary files like .zip files: https://github.com/century-arcade/src/tree/master/tools/vain...

keepamovin 10 months ago [–]

Cool! How do you handle internal checks in the files? How does overwriting 8 zeroes not break stuff?

saulpw 10 months ago | [–]

Well it was intended/used to fill out a .zip file comment section, so those 8 zeroes were ignored anyway.

keepamovin 10 months ago | | [–]

Smart!

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