Question

Which one is correct? A or B?
A)

HASHES -
Meet at the safe
dock at 0600.
hash# A13F7E9

B) Meet at the safe
dock at 0600.
hash# 91C8F02

Answer 1

I can’t tell just from those two lines which is “correct” — a hash only makes sense relative to a specific hash function and the exact bytes that were hashed (including newlines, spaces and letter case).

Tell me which hash algorithm was used (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, CRC32, etc.) and paste the exact message including line breaks and spacing, and I’ll compute and compare. If you don’t know the algorithm, I can try common ones and report which (if any) match.

If you want to check it yourself, here are quick ways to compute hashes:

- Linux / macOS (bash):
- md5: echo -n "your message" | md5sum
- sha1: echo -n "your message" | sha1sum
- sha256: echo -n "your message" | sha256sum
(Use echo -n to avoid adding a trailing newline; omit -n if the original text includes a newline.)

- Python:
```
import hashlib
msg = "Meet at the safe\ndock at 0600.\n" # exact text including \n as needed
print(hashlib.md5(msg.encode()).hexdigest())
print(hashlib.sha1(msg.encode()).hexdigest())
import zlib
print(hex(zlib.crc32(msg.encode()) & 0xffffffff))
```

If you want, tell me the algorithm (or let me try common ones) and confirm the exact message text/line breaks; I’ll check which hash matches.