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Re:Confess your love with zero-knowledge by lights0123 on Friday June 03, 2022 @03:47PM (#31612804)
You could reveal the hash letter-by-letter and stop as soon as a letter differs so there's more possibilities.
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Re:Confess your love with zero-knowledge by teaearlgraycold on Friday June 03, 2022 @11:03PM (#31616557)
> stop as soon as a letter differs

Oops - you just exposed a timing attack side channel

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