Cracking the toolbar hashcode

anyone figure out the algo?

[webdevsf]

Found this from a loong time ago:

[webmasterworld.com...]

I'm wondering if anyone figured out how they are hashing the "ch" code in the navbar query? Its obviously a hash of the domain name, and it has to be a 1-way prime-numbery kind of hash, because new domains come out all the time, and the toolbar doesn't update but once in a blue moon.

If someone cracked that, it's free PageRank queries for everyone!

[Tanith]

Not sure that I can help on actually cracking the #code, but I may have a way of actually dodging the problem.

Are you working on something in that area that we might collaborate on.

[Tanith]

P.S.

There appears to be a difference in the way that the toolbar handles cacheble and non-cacheable pages.

[Storyteller]

I'm about to hire a reverse engineering specialist to do it for me. Anyone interested in getting their hands on the algo can stickymail me. I'm hoping to have it in 2-3 weeks.

[igneus]

I've already cracked it--hire me instead! lol