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by hiatus 961 days ago
> produce tables of pre-hashed emails

Wouldn't this require knowledge of the email beforehand?

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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