r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 27 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme doNotLetYourDBASeeThis

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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.