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by goda90 2189 days ago
It lets you search based on the first 5 characters of a SHA-1 password hash. So you use a trusted tool on your own computer to hash the password you want to search, and pass in just part of it. You get multiple results, and you can then compare against the hashes yourself to see if yours is in there. There's no way for them to collect your password that way.