Сhecking for leaked data without storing any

Re:Сhecking for leaked data without storing any by gorokan on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:43PM (#33605003)

You are right; choice of SHA256 is about handling personal data safely.

Unfortunately, the leaked data is available to anyone. There is no point of putting an extra effort of recovering the data from its hashed form.

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Re:Сhecking for leaked data without storing any by xyzzy123 on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:55PM (#33605082)

Thanks all. My "usual go to" answer for this (protecting data where you'd like to hash it but there's not really enough entropy) is in a sibling comment.

Agree, all the data being public already renders everything a bit moot.

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