Investigation into the relation between processing power and the speed of attacks against cryptographic hashing functions

I’m officially an IB survivor: I’ve graduated IB with a 39 and an A on my Computer Science Extended Essay: a feat I thought was impossible. I’ve spent a total of 48 hours on my Extended Essay (yes, I counted) and now I hope I can put this Extended Essay out as a whole to the world for free. IB in itself isn’t a deplorably bad program - its fruits just reward some of the laborers who put their…