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It is officially recommended by the Troy Hunt: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/issues/79#issuecomment-2407963141 https://github.com/H

• ekjhgkejhgk 10mo ago
  That's crazy, thank you.
• ErroneousBosh 10mo ago
  That speaks to a certain confidence in one's servers ability to hold up under load, doesn't it? "Oh you want your own copy? Sure, just thrash seven shades of shit out of the database. Here's how."
  • ekjhgkejhgk 10mo ago
    Confidence in Cloudflare, for sure.
  • rjmunro 10mo ago
    It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads. I think he should make the files smaller my removing the second half of the hashes, i.e. reduce it from 40 hex digits to 20. This increases the change of a false positive (i.e. I enter my password, it says it was compromised but it wasn't, it just has the same hash as one that did) from 1 in 10^48 to 1 in 10^24 (per password), but that's still a huge number. (There's less than 10^10 people in the world, they only have a few passwords each). This will approximately halve the download, maybe more because the first half of each hash is more compressible (when sorted) the second half is totally random.
    • ekjhgkejhgk 10mo ago
      > It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads. Database: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) [1] It is a database. Stop nitpicking. [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database