A brute force way to find the Kember Identity.

iterative_kember.py

# A brute force way to find the Kember Identity.
# By Mac, @veryhappythings, on a boring afternoon.
# If you want, you can run it with the last attempt as an argument and it'll start there.

import hashlib
import sys

def iterative():
    last_attempt = len(sys.argv) > 1 and int(sys.argv[1]) or 0
    try:
        while True:
            attempt, last_attempt = '%032x' % last_attempt, last_attempt + 1
            if hashlib.md5(attempt).hexdigest() == attempt: 
                return attempt
    finally:
        print
        print attempt
        print last_attempt

print iterative()