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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by uselessuseof on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @06:04PM (#4076450)
obligatory comments

- not portable

- useless use of backticks

printf password|openssl sha1|cut -c6-40|grep -f - hacked.txt

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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by spal on Thursday June 07, 2012 @05:21AM (#4078177)
Why are you extracting 35 characters with 'cut -c6-40'? SHA1 produces a 160-bit message digest. That's 20 bytes or 40 hex-digits.
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Re:6.5 Million LinkedIn Password Hashes Leaked by uselessuseof on Thursday June 07, 2012 @03:19PM (#4080835)
typo.
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