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by Xk 5658 days ago
Ah, alright.

Yeah, seven is just coincidental. But, it appears that you are correct in one respect: seven seems a bit high to me. I don't have the time to do the probability distributions out, if someone cares would they do the calculation and check?

EDIT: The salt 'sV' occurred 215 times. sV39Fw5at18zo occurs seven times. Assuming that there were only 300 possible passwords each of which occurred with probability ~.3% (the probability of '123456'), then the probability of seven passwords hashing to the same value is incredibly low. Less than a thousandth of one percent. Does anyone know why this is? Or was it just the case that Scorpion's assumption that the distribution is very non-random is correct?