At least on my monitor md5(); is visible on the first page without scrolling when searching for “md5″. So my page is on position 7 or 8 (depends whether you count php.net twice or not). Thats so awesome!
Oh .. and here is a screenshot.

The amount of the stored hashes on md5.rednoize.com has made a large jump in the last few days. The site in the google cache (dated from 30 Aug 2006 19:49:32 GMT) counts 5,531,616 md5 strings.
The actual count is about 6,363,467.

The ip 24.141.55.x has added about 400,000 plain text strings to the database.
It started (21 Aug 2006 12:27:50) with “3QOOk28N” and “NtIDSzQ7″, then went over to dictionary words
like “codex”, “hazard”, “strength” to finaly end the mass attack with “Zyzzogeton” (what ever this is supposed to mean) on 02 Sep 2006 06:57:45. For more then ten days the server had a somehow higher load then usual thanks to this guy (although i did not recognized it before yesterday).

In contrast to the “donor of hashes” mentioned above, the ip 195.114.42.x has requested clear text strings for about 53,800 md5 hashes. The attack started on 02 Sep 2006 04:27:24 and lasted until 12:49 the same day. 53,800 queries in 8 hours is a good score.

So, in reaction to this abuse, the web site sleeps some milliseconds with each query from now on.
Normal users should not be affected by this, but these mass query scripts should be slowed down, at least a little bit.

Actually I do not have anything against such mass queries to my server. However the other services running on the machine should not be impaired.

Conclusion: Thanks to the donor, shame on the leecher.

The most recent project i am working on, Hiphop-Battles.com, went finally online today. My partners and me are working on this project for about 2 years now. The team consists of Eike Reifhardt (BioPhonC) who made all the artistic stuff (web design, CI, and all other types of media), Michael Scheel (StarbuG) who is the original founder of hiphop-battles.com and manages all the organizational stuff, and me (puRe) who made all the web site programming, database layout and such things.

We’ve put a lot new features into the new version, which i will describe detailed in forthcoming posts.
For now you may read the official press release:

On September 1st, one of the leading international hip-hop battle websites, www.hiphop-battles.com, relaunched to introduce a brand new design and a new free arena for graffiti battles.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany (PRWEB) September 1, 2006 -– With the launch of the second version of www.hiphop-battles.com on September 1st, a third battle arena for graffiti graphic battles was introduced to the website, next to the older arenas for rap and beatbox audio battles. The graffiti arena was a response to the high demand in the hip-hop and graffiti scene, which currently lacks legal ways for competing art skills with graffiti writers from all over the world.

Hiphop-battles.com provides hip-hop fans and artists with free access to over 15,000 legal hip-hop mp3s and a way to vote in ongoing battles in a democratic voting system. The ranking system tells the visitor about “who is hot and who is not” and orients new users, to find the most interesting battles. In its second version, www.hiphop-battles.com also received a total makeover, and shines with a brand new design. Switching to another interface language or to another arena got much easier, and can now be controlled from everywhere on the website.

With the rap, beatbox and the new graffiti battle arena, www.hiphop-battles.com now combines three important elements of hip-hop, and strengthens its position as leading hip-hop battle website.

For more information about the relaunch of hiphop-battles.com or the new online graffiti battle feature, please visit www.hiphop-battles.com/press/, or contact Michael Scheel.

About hiphop-battles.com

www.hiphop-battles.com is a unique online competition platform for international hip-hop artists focusing on audio and graphic battles. With over 11,000 members and more then 8000 battles we have become one of the leading hip-hop competition websites. HipHop-Battles.com enables artists to compete their rap, beatbox and graffiti skills with other artists from around the globe. Hip-hop fans get free access to over 15,000 legal mp3s and the constantly growing community is producing new content on a daily basis.

###