[Nottingham] 1GB of \0 (aka null)

[Richard Hayes]

Thanks for all of the responses guys, I'm quite overwhelmed!

> Seriously though, what's the requirement here? There's plenty of ways of 
> generating streams of characters. The choice will depend largely on how 
> you want to use it.

I'm doing some online Linux proficiency tests, and one of the questions
is:

Calculate the sha1sum hash of 1GB of \0 characters (aka zeros, nulls etc).

That's the whole question! They're all quite tricky, in their actual 
difficulty
and their ambiguity.

That's all the info I have.

Thanks again :)