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The above post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45840724 links to 71.3 KiB of data; since it's a 5-nybble prefix (20 bits) we may easily estimate a size of 71.3 GiB assuming that's a representative sample. Not unfeasible nowadays, but it seems you do have to make separate requests and would presumably be rate-limited on them.

If you only download the hash pages corresponding to passwords you hold, even supposing that everything else is fully compromised, an attacker would have to reverse a couple thousand SHA-1 hashes, dodge hash collisions, and brute-force with the results (yes, yes: arson, murder and jaywalking) to pwn you.



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