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Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by lucasgonze on Sunday June 11, 2017 @05:42PM (#14533943)
I wonder about how to package your data as developer tools.

There should be libraries in any language used to develop systems which validate user-entered passwords.

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Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by berzerk0 on Sunday June 11, 2017 @09:39PM (#14534769)
Dropbox has their zxcvbn method which incorporates a list of 30k of the most common passwords

https://github.com/dropbox/zxcvbn

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Re:Show HN: 5+ Billion Passwords in Order of Most Popular by bradleyjg on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:15AM (#14537944)
It looks like they gzip the file over the wire and then work with it uncompressed. That's probably a reasonable choice given they use only 30,000 passwords.
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