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		tomjen3 on March 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs... If a company can reverse engineer sha512 that easily, we got bigger problems that leaking device numbers.

maukdaddy on March 25, 2012 | [–]

And that company sure as hell isn't wasting time developing iOS apps.

stcredzero on March 25, 2012 | [–]

No reverse engineering of SHA512 or other hash algorithm is necessary. Left as an exercise for the truly curious about security. (Hint, you can get the same information from much lower hanging fruit.)

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