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Space Age Compression

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-27 11:07

I'm working on a new type of compression algorithm and have run into some difficulties.

Basically what I do is this:

Given raw data: D
I compute the MD5 hash: H = MD5(D)
At this point I've compressed by a factor of Size(D) / Size(H) (which for any data larger than 128-bits is significant)

My problem is uncompressing the data.

Currently what I'm doing is as follows: (keep in mind i'm working with bit values here)

G = {0}[trillion]

while (MD5(G) != H) G++;

I know this has the problem of unintentionally hashing the preceding zeros but the main issue I'm running into is runtime.

So far 20-30 bit lengths have run in feasible time but when I tried to run this with a 32-bit guess, it took several minutes to verify.

My MD5 implementation may be inefficient but it's also possible that this algorithm suffers from a runtime of 2^n.

Any tips? Or is this simply an unfeasible compression algorithm?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-27 11:30


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