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by daneel_w 1587 days ago
There's something interesting to note in the visualized gradient distribution after guessing some common English words: https://i.imgur.com/hDSBaYw.png
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That's a consequence of certain characters not reappearing in the hash as compared to the hash of the actual password.

This would become more apparent if this traded in sha512s instead.