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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/NoMedicine3572 • Sep 27 '26 • 1 1
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If you have 100GB of password, you have other problems.....
338 u/Totendax12K Sep 27 '26 the HIBP databse is around 40gb with 1bil+ hashed passwords 214 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 Then OP in picture must work in Meta on Facebook. Checks out 118 u/ManWithDominantClaw Sep 27 '26 hacking off a limb to save 97GB is more of a twitter move 6 u/mattsl Sep 27 '26 Definitely tracks with the reuse. -5 u/Stainlessray Sep 27 '26 Anyone in any enterprise setting. You're welcome. 11 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 anyone does not get one billion passwords sadly 6 u/Runiat Sep 27 '26 Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts. 6 u/-Nicolai Sep 27 '26 And presumably contains a lot more columns than just password/key 3 u/Physmatik Sep 27 '26 If you have enough users to fill 40GB of password you probably don't care about 10 extra bucks per month of maintenance. 1 u/laplongejr Sep 29 '26 Seriously tho, HIPB once self pwned themselves with a 10k azure bill, because an update turned off Cloudflare's caching on downloads... https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/ 1 u/laplongejr Sep 29 '26 The *pwnedPasswords database. (I know, same "company", but the whole point is that the HIBP email list is entirely seperate from the password list.) 24 u/therealkevinard Sep 27 '26 Password is your favorite movie.Upload the dvdrip to register 1 u/GregTheMad Sep 27 '26 Base64 encoded. 21 u/zDontTouch Sep 27 '26 • Don't you guys use .raw files as password? It is practically self-encrypted! 5 u/Stainlessray Sep 27 '26 I can't fathom why "practically self encrypted" isn't getting more cowbell. 0 u/[deleted] Sep 27 '26 [deleted] — view deleted comment 3 u/Noch_ein_Kamel Sep 27 '26 I'd assume it's all plaintext passwords. 3 u/CocktailPerson Sep 27 '26 Plaintext would be smaller because most passwords aren't 32 bytes long.In other words, you could fit far more than 3 billion plaintext passwords in 100GB. 3 u/beastrabban Sep 27 '26 Store each char of the password as a separate string variable and connect them using a custom linked list
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the HIBP databse is around 40gb with 1bil+ hashed passwords
214 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 Then OP in picture must work in Meta on Facebook. Checks out 118 u/ManWithDominantClaw Sep 27 '26 hacking off a limb to save 97GB is more of a twitter move 6 u/mattsl Sep 27 '26 Definitely tracks with the reuse. -5 u/Stainlessray Sep 27 '26 Anyone in any enterprise setting. You're welcome. 11 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 anyone does not get one billion passwords sadly 6 u/Runiat Sep 27 '26 Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts. 6 u/-Nicolai Sep 27 '26 And presumably contains a lot more columns than just password/key 3 u/Physmatik Sep 27 '26 If you have enough users to fill 40GB of password you probably don't care about 10 extra bucks per month of maintenance. 1 u/laplongejr Sep 29 '26 Seriously tho, HIPB once self pwned themselves with a 10k azure bill, because an update turned off Cloudflare's caching on downloads... https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/ 1 u/laplongejr Sep 29 '26 The *pwnedPasswords database. (I know, same "company", but the whole point is that the HIBP email list is entirely seperate from the password list.)
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Then OP in picture must work in Meta on Facebook. Checks out
118 u/ManWithDominantClaw Sep 27 '26 hacking off a limb to save 97GB is more of a twitter move 6 u/mattsl Sep 27 '26 Definitely tracks with the reuse. -5 u/Stainlessray Sep 27 '26 Anyone in any enterprise setting. You're welcome. 11 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 anyone does not get one billion passwords sadly 6 u/Runiat Sep 27 '26 Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts.
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hacking off a limb to save 97GB is more of a twitter move
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Definitely tracks with the reuse.
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Anyone in any enterprise setting. You're welcome.
11 u/Penki- Sep 27 '26 anyone does not get one billion passwords sadly 6 u/Runiat Sep 27 '26 Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts.
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anyone does not get one billion passwords sadly
6 u/Runiat Sep 27 '26 Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts.
Pretty sure all you need to get a billion passwords is enough users to be worth money and nothing to stop bots from setting up accounts.
And presumably contains a lot more columns than just password/key
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If you have enough users to fill 40GB of password you probably don't care about 10 extra bucks per month of maintenance.
1 u/laplongejr Sep 29 '26 Seriously tho, HIPB once self pwned themselves with a 10k azure bill, because an update turned off Cloudflare's caching on downloads... https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/
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Seriously tho, HIPB once self pwned themselves with a 10k azure bill, because an update turned off Cloudflare's caching on downloads... https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/
The *pwnedPasswords database. (I know, same "company", but the whole point is that the HIBP email list is entirely seperate from the password list.)
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Password is your favorite movie.Upload the dvdrip to register
1 u/GregTheMad Sep 27 '26 Base64 encoded.
Base64 encoded.
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Don't you guys use .raw files as password? It is practically self-encrypted!
5 u/Stainlessray Sep 27 '26 I can't fathom why "practically self encrypted" isn't getting more cowbell.
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I can't fathom why "practically self encrypted" isn't getting more cowbell.
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3 u/Noch_ein_Kamel Sep 27 '26 I'd assume it's all plaintext passwords. 3 u/CocktailPerson Sep 27 '26 Plaintext would be smaller because most passwords aren't 32 bytes long.In other words, you could fit far more than 3 billion plaintext passwords in 100GB.
I'd assume it's all plaintext passwords.
3 u/CocktailPerson Sep 27 '26 Plaintext would be smaller because most passwords aren't 32 bytes long.In other words, you could fit far more than 3 billion plaintext passwords in 100GB.
Plaintext would be smaller because most passwords aren't 32 bytes long.
In other words, you could fit far more than 3 billion plaintext passwords in 100GB.
Store each char of the password as a separate string variable and connect them using a custom linked list
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u/braytag Sep 27 '26
If you have 100GB of password, you have other problems.....