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lackertoday at 7:13 PM1 replyview on HN

This is like giving you three outputs from md5sum and asking you to guess for which one the input ended in a "q". There's no way to tell unless you break the RNG.


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pllbnktoday at 7:34 PM

Yeah, it's a pointless exercise. I hope the author is just trolling given that he is knowledgeable in the field.

> Here are three 64-character hex strings. Two are random. One is HMAC-SHA256(secret_key, "anthropic"). You don't have the key. Which one is the HMAC?

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