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hiatus
961 days ago
> produce tables of pre-hashed emails
Wouldn't this require knowledge of the email beforehand?
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mgillett54
961 days ago
I think the idea is that you can generate the MD5 hash of all, say 8 letter, @gmail.com addresses trivially and since the email hashes used for targeting don’t have a salt, it’s a one time “expense” to build the reverse lookup table
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