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Hex strings of SHA-256 hashes produce too many false positives #7

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1Hyena opened this issue Mar 24, 2019 · 0 comments
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Hex strings of SHA-256 hashes produce too many false positives #7

1Hyena opened this issue Mar 24, 2019 · 0 comments
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1Hyena commented Mar 24, 2019

Take this for example:

31d51a69d5ca0407d279a2ece4b3eacd60610444359a0ad099931a516f163397

It is a SHA-256 hash represented as a hex string.

Common sense says it's gibberish. Yet too often are such hashes reported by nostril as real texts.
@mhucka mhucka added this to the 1.3 milestone Nov 18, 2019
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