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by tourmalinetaco 1136 days ago
The hashing doesn’t matter when IPv4 has such a limited dataset. IPv4 has a little under 4.3B addresses, and a cheaper GPU such as the 1080TI has a hash rate of around 4300MH/s, so it crushes that in a few seconds at most.

From there, you have a direct correlation between the IP and its resulting hash. Meaning you can easily see what the original input was.

You don’t need to break a hash to know what the original input was.