Actually, I think the previous posters idea is a pretty good one. there's a simple way to implement exactly what he's talking about. You could use a methodology commonly used in the distributed computing whereas the application uses the computers idle cycles to do it's hashing. obviously, you have to post a message at the beginning of hashing to indicate to the user that the hashing process is using the idle CPU cycles. otherwise, most users will freak out when they see their CPU pegged at 100%. On second thought, they'll freak out anyway if they don't understand what it means to use the idle cycles to do the hashing.

Finally, I think the current implementation is just fine.

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