Enhancing Pwned Passwords Privacy with Padding
Troy Hunt
MARCH 4, 2020
Since launching version 2 of Pwned Passwords with the k-anonymity model just over 2 years ago now, the thing has really gone nuts (read that blog post for background otherwise nothing from here on will make much sense). They could be searching for any password whose SHA-1 hash begins with those characters. Very slick!
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