This is advance notice that unless your prediction is a short bit of plaintext that obviously doesn’t have more than a few bits’ worth of scope for massaging, your use of MD5 is likely to be taken as showing that you cheated.
I just realized that editing the grammar above was an issue since it doesn’t show when the edit occurred so repeating the hash here in a comment which will remain unedited: 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03 .
Precommitting to a secret prediction which I’ll reveal on April 15. MD5 hash for the prediction is 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03 .
This is advance notice that unless your prediction is a short bit of plaintext that obviously doesn’t have more than a few bits’ worth of scope for massaging, your use of MD5 is likely to be taken as showing that you cheated.
Valid point. Here is the SHA-1 hash: f886dee5be3192819b3cd596cd73919f5c1e0a2c .
Copy of JoshuaZ’s SHA-1 hash as of 2015-01-20 18:06 GMT: f886dee5be3192819b3cd596cd73919f5c1e0a2c .
Hash copy: 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03
I just realized that editing the grammar above was an issue since it doesn’t show when the edit occurred so repeating the hash here in a comment which will remain unedited: 38bd807a6872f6a5622aa2b011fd8f03 .