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Security Breach at US Universities
They don’t publish the data itself they just compare a hash of it to a hash of whatever you submit for comparison.
donw
on April 1, 2021
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Right, but they have to look at that data to create those hashes, no?
DJBunnies
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No, you submit your own hashes or partial hashes.
jffry
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I think donw was talking about the much more gray-area part of HIBP: obtaining the lists of leaked passwords, in order to hash each one and store the hashes.
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