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by vbitz 1272 days ago
Not if your only checking 1 possibility rather than a few million.

It could take on the order of a few seconds per password in the worst case. Normally a few Milliseconds.

So 1,000,000 breached passwords * 100ms per check is 100,000 CPU seconds or about 30 CPU hours to check all passwords. The is easily paraliseable so imagine more like 10-20 minutes in parallel.

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>So 1,000,000 breached passwords * 100ms per check is 100,000 CPU seconds or about 30 CPU hours to check all passwords.

For a single user's account. Multiply that by 1 million ring users and you get 30 million CPU hours.