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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by nocarrier on Friday April 22, 2016 @12:10PM (#11550216)
It requires substantially more compute power to match "facebookcorewwwi" vs just finding a hash with a prefix of "facebook" that looks readable. Good luck hashing the remaining eight characters!
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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by Russell91 on Friday April 22, 2016 @01:48PM (#11550994)
Well, it would just take twice as long as hashing the first 8... /s
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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by MacsHeadroom on Friday April 22, 2016 @02:38PM (#11551502)
I realize that was sarcasm.

But for the non-hash-aware among us, it would take on average 2,147,483,647 as long to brute force the last 8 with the same computing power and 4,294,967,295 as long to hash every combination of the last 8. This all assumes no vulnerabilities in the algorithm, of course.

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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by ryan-c on Friday April 22, 2016 @03:10PM (#11551809)
It's base32, not base16, so you're off by several orders of magnitude - numbers should be 549,755,813,888 and 1,099,511,627,776.
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Re:1M People Use Facebook Over Tor by MacsHeadroom on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:24AM (#11628121)
I believe you are correct. I appreciate the correction.
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